Erm configure a V Lan

[digitalsouls]

Rite this is pritty hard for me to explaine so please bair with me.

Rite our set up is 3 cisco catalyst 3500 xl switches and
a cisco 1700 series router

now when i try and ping my switches it doesnt respond. now i have been told that i need to configre the V lan to see them.

How do i do this?

 

[kittenhammer]

VLAN1 (by default) is a "management" VLAN. You need to define IP addresses (in the same subnet as your router interface) for the VLAN1 interface on your switches (int vlan 1 / ip address x.x.x.x x.x.x.x).

(You may need to use the command "switchport access vlan 1" on the switch ports speaking to the router to ensure they're not set to another VLAN.)

I've not had much experience with the 3500XLs, so I hope this advice is still valid. I believe some have layer 3 functionality, but I won't touch that here.