138 Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 User Guide • September 2008
FIGURE5-15 Network Properties Dialogs
Network IP Configuration
The IP configuration identifies the switch on the Ethernet network, determines
which network discovery method to use, and enables/disables the IPv4 and IPv6
network addressing.

IPv4 and IPv6 Addressing

The firmware supports the IPv4 and IPv6 address families. An IPv4 address is 32
bits, and consists of four blocks of decimal numbers, with each block separated by a
period. Each block can have up to three numbers. The single zero character
displayed in a block represents all zeroes for that block. An example of an IPv4
address is 255.255.255.0. All four blocks contain numbers. TABLE 5-6 describes the
IPv4 and IPv6 configuration parameters.