Installation and Getting Started Guide

Configuring IP Parameters – Routing Switches

The following sections describe how to configure IP parameters. Some parameters can be configured globally while others can be configured on individual interfaces. Some parameters can be configured globally and overridden for individual interfaces.

NOTE: This section describes how to configure IP parameters for routing switches. For IP configuration information for the HP 6208M-SX, see “Configuring IP Parameters – HP 6208M-SX” on page 6-73.

Configuring IP Addresses

You can configure an IP address on the following types of routing switch interfaces:

•Ethernet port

•Virtual routing interface (also called a Virtual Ethernet or “VE”)

•Loopback interface

By default, you can configure up to 24 IP addresses on each interface. On the HP 6308M-SX, you can increase this amount to up to 64 IP sub-net addresses per port by increasing the size of the subnet-per-interface table. See the “Configuring Basic Features” chapter of the Installation and Getting Started Guide.

HP ProCurve devices support both classical IP network masks (Class A, B, and C sub-net masks, and so on) and Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR) network prefix masks.

•To enter a classical network mask, enter the mask in IP address format. For example, enter “209.157.22.99 255.255.255.0” for an IP address with a Class-C sub-net mask.

•To enter a prefix network mask, enter a forward slash ( / ) and the number of bits in the mask immediately after the IP address. For example, enter “209.157.22.99/24” for an IP address that has a network mask with 24 significant bits (ones).

By default, the CLI displays network masks in classical IP address format (example: 255.255.255.0). You can change the display to prefix format. See “Changing the Network Mask Display to Prefix Format” on page 6-80.

Assigning an IP Address to an Ethernet Port

To assign an IP address to an Ethernet port, use either of the following methods.

USING THE CLI

To assign an IP address to port 1/1, enter the following commands:

HP9300(config)# interface ethernet 1/1

HP9300(config-if-1/1)# ip address 192.45.6.1 255.255.255.0

Syntax: ip address <ip-addr> <ip-mask> [secondary]

or

Syntax: 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.

NOTE: You also can enter the IP address and mask in CIDR format, as follows:

HP9300(config-if-1/1)# ip address 192.45.6.1/24

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