HP ProCurve Series 4100GL Management And Configuration Manual page 8

7 Interface Access, System Information, and Friendly
8 Configuring IP Addressing
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Port Names
Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
Interface Access: Console/Serial Link, Web, and Telnet . . . . . . . . . 7-3
Menu: Modifying the Interface Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4
CLI: Modifying the Interface Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
Denying Interface Access by Terminating Remote Management
Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8
System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9
Menu: Viewing and Configuring System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
CLI: Viewing and Configuring System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
Web: Configuring System Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
Using Friendly (Optional) Port Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15
Configuring and Operating Rules for Friendly Port Names . . . . . . . . 7-15
Configuring Friendly Port Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16
Displaying Friendly Port Names with Other Port Data . . . . . . . . . . . 7-18
Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2
IP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3
Just Want a Quick Start with IP Addressing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4
IP Addressing with Multiple VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4
IP Addressing in a Stacking Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5
Menu: Configuring IP Address, Gateway, and Time-To-Live (TTL) . . 8-5
CLI: Configuring IP Address, Gateway, and Time-To-Live (TTL) . . . . 8-7
Web: Configuring IP Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-11
How IP Addressing Affects Switch Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-11
DHCP/Bootp Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-12
Network Preparations for Configuring DHCP/Bootp . . . . . . . . . 8-15
IP Preserve: Retaining VLAN-1 IP Addressing Across
Configuration File Downloads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-16
Globally Assigned IP Network Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-20