Using Authorized IP Managers

Building IP Masks

Building IP Masks

The IP Mask parameter controls how the switch uses an Authorized Manager IP value to recognize the IP addresses of authorized manager stations on your network.

Configuring One Station Per Authorized Manager IPEntry

This is the easiest way to apply a mask. If you have ten or fewer management and/or operator stations, you can configure them by adding the address of each to the Authorized Manager IP list with 255.255.255.255 for the correspond­ ing mask. For example, as shown in figure 14-3on page 14-6,if you configure an IP address of 10.28.227.125 with an IP mask of 255.255.255.255, only a station having an IP address of 10.28.227.125 has management access to the switch.

Table 14-1. Analysis of IP Mask for Single-Station Entries

 

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

Manager-Level or Operator-Level Device Access

 

Octet

Octet

Octet

Octet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IP Mask

255

255

255

255

The “255” in each octet of the mask specifies that only the exact value in

Authorized

10

33

248

5

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.

Manager IP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

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