IP Routing Features

Overview of IP Routing

Overview of IP Routing

The switches covered in this guide offer IP static routing, supporting up to 16 static routes.

IP static routing is configurable through the switch’s console CLI.

This chapter refers the switch as a “routing switch”. When IP routing is enabled on your switch, it behaves just like any other IP router.

Basic IP routing configuration consists of adding IP addresses and enabling IP routing.

For configuring the IP addresses, see chapter 7, “Configuring IP Addresses”. The rest of this chapter describes IP routing and how to configure it in more detail. Use the information in this chapter if you need to change some of the IP parameters from their default values or you want to view configuration information or statistics.

IP Interfaces

On the ProCurve routing switches, IP addresses are associated with individual VLANs. By default, there is a single VLAN (Default_VLAN) on the routing switch. In that configuration, a single IP address serves as the management access address for the entire routing switch. If routing is enabled on the routing switch, the IP address on the single VLAN also acts as the routing interface.

Each IP address range, specified by an IP address and a subnet mask or mask bits, must be in a single subnet and must be configured on a single VLAN. For example, if you configure the IP address range 192.200.200.0/24 on a VLAN on the routing switch, you cannot add the address 192.200.200.1 to a different VLAN on the same routing switch. The address 192.200.200.1 is in the address range 192.200.200.0/24 and so is known to exist on that interface and cannot be duplicated on a second VLAN interface.

You can configure multiple IP subnets on the same VLAN. This is commonly known as multi-netting. The number of IP subnets you can configure on an individual VLAN interface is 8.

You can use any of the IP addresses you configure on the routing switch for Telnet, Web management, or SNMP access, as well as for routing.

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