Nortel Networks NN47200-503 No ip address command, Adding secondary IP interfaces Step Action

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ip address parameters
Parameter	Description
<A.B.C.D>	The IP address to attach to the VLAN.
<W.X.Y.Z>	The subnet mask to attach to the VLAN
<1 - 256>	The MAC offset value. Specify the value 1 for the
	Management VLAN only.
secondary	Use this option to set up a secondary IP interface
	on a VLAN. You can have a maximum of eight
	secondary IP interfaces for every primary and
	the primary must be set up before any secondary
	interfaces are configured.

no ip address command

The no ip address command disables routing on a VLAN. The syntax for the no ip address command is:

no ip address <A.B.C.D> <W.X.Y.Z >

The following table describes the parameters for this command.

no ip address parameters

Parameter	Description
<A.B.C.D>	The IP address to disable routing on.
<W.X.Y.Z >	The subnet mask to disable routing on.

The no ip address command is executed in the Interface Configuration command mode.

Multinetting

To add a secondary IP interface to a VLAN, known as Multinetting, use the following procedure:

Adding secondary IP interfaces

Step Action

1Put the switch into interface mode for the specific VLAN. interface vlan <vlan #>

2Create a primary interface before adding secondary interfaces (if a primary interface has not yet been created).

ip address <ip address> <mask> [<mac offset>]

3Define a secondary IP interface on the VLAN.

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 Series

Configuration-IP Routing Protocols

NN47200-503 03.01 Standard

5.127 August 2007

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