RuggedCom RS400 manual IP Interfaces Table

Administration

1.5 IP Interfaces

These parameters provide the ability to configure IP connection parameters such as address, network, and mask.

The user can configure an IP Interface for each subnet (VLAN). One of the interfaces is configured as management interface. IP services: TFTP server, SNMP server, Telnet server, SSH server, RSH server, Web server, authentication using RADIUS server, DHCP client, BOOTP client, DHCP relay agent will be available only via management interface. Different IP interfaces MUST NOT overlap, e.g. the subnet mask must be unique.

15 IP interfaces can be configured in the device. In VLAN unaware mode, and in devices that do not act as switches (as RMC30), only one IP interface can be configured.

On non-management interfaces, only static IP addresses can be assigned.

On management interface, the user can choose from the following IP Address type: Static, DHCP, BOOTP and Dynamic. Static IP Address type refers to the manual assignment of IP address while DHCP, BOOTP and Dynamic IP Address types refer to the automatic assignment of IP address.

DHCP is widely used in LAN environments to dynamically assign IP addresses from a centralized server, which reduces the overhead of administrating IP addresses.

BOOTP is a subset of the DHCP protocol. ROSTM supports transfer of a BOOTFILE via BOOTP. The BOOTFILE represents any valid ROSTM file such as config.csv. The name of BOOTFILE on the BOOTP server must match the corresponding ROSTM file.

The Dynamic IP Address type refers to a combination of the BOOTP and DHCP protocols. Starting with BOOTP, the system will try BOOTP and DHCP in a round-robin fashion until it will get a response from the corresponding server.

Figure 7: IP Interfaces Table

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