How to configure Arista switches¶

• Table of contents
• How to configure Arista switches
  • Saving your changes
  • Entering conf mode
  • Setting password
  • Setting name
  • Creating a VLAN
  • Putting a port into a untagged vlan
  • Creating a port channel (= LACP = bonding)

Saving your changes¶

If you don't enter write at the end, everything is lost after reboot.

write

Entering conf mode¶

enable
conf

Setting password¶

username admin secret <passwordhere>

Setting name¶

hostname <NAME>

Creating a VLAN¶

vlan <ID-OF-VLAN>
name <NAME-OF-VLAN>

Putting a port into a untagged vlan¶

interface EthernetXX
   switchport access vlan YY

Creating a port channel (= LACP = bonding)¶

• go to the interface that you want to be in the port-channel
• configure it

interface EthernetXX
   channel-group XX mode active