Chapter 5: Powering On the Switch
Adding a Management IP Address
You must assign the switch a management IP address to access the web user interface and to remotely manage the switch during a remote Telnet connection. Here are the requirements:
The switch can have one management IPv4 address and one management IPv6 address.
A management IP address must be assigned to a VLAN on the switch. It can be any VLAN, including the Default VLAN.
The host devices (for example, Syslog servers, TFTP servers) must be members of the same subnet as a management IP address or have access to it through routers or other Layer 3 devices.
The switch must also have a default gateway if the host devices are not members of the same subnet as the management IP address. The default gateway specifies the IP address of a router interface that represents the first hop to the subnets or networks of the host devices.
A default gateway address, if needed, must be a member of the same subnet as a management IP address.
The switch can have one IPv4 default gateway and one IPv6 gateway.
The IP ADDRESS command in the VLAN Interface mode command adds a management IPv4 address to the switch. Table 9 on page 70 shows an example in which the command assigns a management IPv4 address of 149.82.112.72 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 to the Default VLAN, which has the VID 1. The switch is also assigned the default gateway, 149.82.112.18:
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