Brocade Communications Systems S3-1002483-03 manual Enabling and disabling the interfaces

3 Configuring IP addresses

You must use the serial connection to assign the first IP address. For subsequent addresses, you also can use the CLI through Telnet or the Web management interface. You can use IronView Network Manager to assign IP addresses to virtual routing interfaces only.

By default, you can configure up to 24 IP interfaces on each interface, virtual interface, and loopback interface.

For example, to assign the IP address 192.22.3.44 and sub-net mask 255.255.255.0 to Ethernet interface 1/1, do the following.

1. At the opening CLI prompt, enter enable.

BigIron RX> enable

2.Enter the following command at the Privileged EXEC level prompt, then press Enter. This command erases the factory test configuration if still present:

BigIron RX# erase startup-config

CAUTION

Use the erase startup-config command only for new systems. If you enter this command on a system you have already configured, the command erases the configuration. If you accidentally erase the configuration on a configured system, enter the write memory command to save the running configuration to the startup-config file.

3. Access the configuration level of the CLI by entering the following command:

BigIron RX# configure terminalPrivileged EXEC Level

BigIron RX(config)# Global CONFIG Level

4.Configure the IP address and sub-net mask for Ethernet interface 1/1 by entering the following commands:

BigIron RX(config)# interface ethernet 1/1

BigIron RX(config-if-e10000-1/1)# ip address 192.22.3.44 255.255.255.0

Syntax: enable [<password>]

Syntax: configure terminal

Syntax: [no] ip address <ip-addr><ip-mask> [secondary]

or

Syntax: [no] ip address <ip-addr>/<mask-bits> [secondary]

Use the secondary parameter if you have already configured an IP address within the same sub-net on the interface.

Enabling and disabling the interfaces

By default, all BigIron RX Series interfaces are disabled. To enable an interface, you must enter the enable command at the appropriate interface configuration level of the CLI. For example, to enable the management interface, enter the enable command at the management interface configuration level of the CLI:

BigIron RX(config-if-mgmt-1)# enable

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