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The following procedure shows how to add an IP address and mask to a router port.
1. At the opening CLI prompt, enter enable.
device> enable
2. Enter the following command at the privileged EXEC level prompt, and then press Enter . This command erases the factory test
configuration if still present.
device# erase startup-config
CAUTION
Use the erase startup-config command only for new systems. If you enter this command on a system you have
already configured, the command erases the configuration. If you accidentally do erase the configuration on a
configured system, enter the write memory command to save the running configuration to the startup-config file.
3. Access the global configuration level of the CLI by entering the following command.
device# configure terminal
Brocade(config)#
4. Configure the IP addresses and mask addresses for the interfaces on the router.
device(config)# interface ethernet 2
device(config)# ip address 10.22.3.44 255.255.255.0
NOTE
You can use the ip address
ip-addr
/
mask-bits
command if you know the subnet mask length. In the previous
example, you could enter ip address 10.22.3.44/24.
Use the secondary option of the ip address command parameter if you have already configured an IP address within the same
subnet on the interface.
Configuring IP parameters for devices running Layer 3 software
You must configure IP parameters for devices running Layer 3 software.
Configuring IP addresses
You can configure an IP address on the following types of Layer 3 interfaces:
∙
Ethernet port
∙
Virtual routing interface (also called a Virtual Ethernet or "VE")
∙
Loopback interface
By default, you can have up to 24 IP addresses on each interface, but you can increase this number to 128 IP addresses.
NOTE
Once you configure a virtual routing interface on a VLAN, you cannot configure Layer 3 interface parameters on individual
ports in the VLAN. Instead, you must configure the parameters on the virtual routing interface itself.
Assigning an IP address to an Ethernet port
Enter the following commands to assign an IP address to port 1/1/1.
device(config)# interface ethernet 1/1/1
device(config)# ip address 10.45.6.1 255.255.255.0
Configuring the Device
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