Using Authorized IP Managers
Building IP Masks
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IP Mask | 255 | 255 | 255 | 255 | The “255” in each octet of the mask specifies that only the exact value in | |
Authorized | 10 | 28 | 227 | 125 | that octet of the corresponding IP address is allowed. This mask allows | |
management access only to a station having an IP address of 10.33.248.5. | ||||||
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Configuring Multiple Stations Per Authorized Manager IP Entry
The mask determines whether the IP address of a station on the network meets the criteria you specify. That is, for a given Authorized Manager entry, the switch applies the IP mask to the IP address you specify to determine a range of authorized IP addresses for management access. As described above, that range can be as small as one IP address (if 255 is set for all octets in the mask), or can include multiple IP addresses (if one or more octets in the mask are set to less than 255).
If a bit in an octet of the mask is “on” (set to 1), then the corresponding bit in the IP address of a potentially authorized station must match the same bit in the IP address you entered in the Authorized Manager IP list. Conversely, if a bit in an octet of the mask is “off” (set to 0), then the corresponding bit in the IP address of a potentially authorized station on the network does not have to match its counterpart in the IP address you entered in the Authorized Manager IP list. Thus, in the example shown above, a “255” in an IP Mask octet (all bits in the octet are “on”) means only one value is allowed for that