3Com 3031 Command Reference Manual page 400

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HAPTER ETWORK ROTOCOL
Parameter
interface-type: Name of the unnumbered interface.
interface-number: Serial number of the unnumbered interface.
interface-name: Interface name of the unnumbered interface.
Description
Using the ip address unnumbered command, you can enable an interface to
borrow the IP address of another interface. Using the undo ip address
unnumbered command, you can disable this function on the interface.
By default, an interface does not borrow IP addresses from other interfaces.
This command is used to enable serial interfaces encapsulated with PPP, HDLC,
Frame Relay, SLIP and Tunnel to borrow the IP addresses from the Ethernet
interface or other interfaces.
Example
Display how to make the serial interface 0/0/0 encapsulated with PPP borrow the
unnumbered IP address from Ethernet interface 0/0/0.
[3Com-Serial0/0/0] ip address unnumbered Ethernet 0/0/0
remote address Syntax
remote address { ip-address | pool [ pool-number ] }
undo remote address
View
Interface view
Parameter
ip-address: IP address.
pool-number: Address pool number, i.e., assigning one address in the
pool-number to the peer interface. It is a number ranging 0 to 99 with the default
value as 0.
Description
Using the remote address command, you can configure to assign IP address for
the peer interface. Using the undo remote address command, you can disable to
assign IP address for the peer interface.
By default, the interface does not assign address for the peer interface.
When an interface is encapsulated with PPP, but not configured with IP address,
perform the following task to configure the negotiable attribute of IP address for
this interface (configuring the ip address ppp-negotiate command on local router