Brocade Communications Systems ICX 6650 IP interfaces

Brocade ICX 6650 Layer 3 Routing Configuration Guide 3

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IP configuration overview

•Route exchange protocols:

-Routing Information Protocol (RIP)

-Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

-Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGP4)

•Multicast protocols:

-Internet Group Membership Protocol (IGMP)

-Protocol Independent Multicast Dense (PIM-DM)

-Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse (PIM-SM)

•Router redundancy protocols:

-Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol Extended (VRRP-E)

-Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

IP interfaces

NOTE

This section describes IPv4 addresses. For information about IPv6 addresses on Brocade ICX 6650

devices, refer to “IPv6 addressing overview” section in the Brocade ICX 6650 Administration Guide.

Brocade Layer 3 Switches and Layer 2 Switches allow you to configure IP addresses. On Layer 3

Switches, IP addresses are associated with individual interfaces. On Layer 2 Switches, a single IP

address serves as the management access address for the entire device.

All Brocade Layer 3 Switches and Layer 2 Switches support configuration and display of IP

addresses in classical subnet format (for example: 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0) and Classless

Interdomain Routing (CIDR) format (for example: 192.168.1.1/24). You can use either format when

configuring IP address information. IP addresses are displayed in classical subnet format by default

but you can change the display format to CIDR. Refer to “Changing the network mask display to

prefix format” on page113.

Brocade Layer 3 Switches allow you to configure IP addresses on the following types of interfaces:

•Ethernet ports

•Virtual routing interfaces (used by VLANs to route among one another)

•Loopback interfaces

Each IP address on a Layer 3 Switch must be in a different subnet. You can have only one interface

that is in a given subnet. For example, you can configure IP addresses 192.168.1.1/24 and

192.168.2.1/24 on the same Layer 3 Switch, but you cannot configure 192.168.1.1/24 and

192.168.1.2/24 on the same Layer 3 Switch.

You can configure multiple IP addresses on the same interface.

The number of IP addresses you can configure on an individual interface depends on the Layer 3

Switch model. To display the maximum number of IP addresses and other system parameters you

can configure on a Layer 3 Switch, refer to “Displaying and modifying system parameter default

settings” section in the Brocade ICX 6650 Platform and Layer 2 Switching Configuration Guide.