Dhcp Activation - Brocade Communications Systems 1606 Administrator's Manual

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The Ethernet interface on your switch
On an AP blade, configure the two external Ethernet interfaces to two different subnets, or if two
subnets are not present, configure one of the interfaces and leave the other unconfigured.
Otherwise the following message will display and also blade status may go into a faulty state after
a reboot.
Setting the static addresses for the Ethernet network interface
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the ipAddrSet command.
3. Enter the network information in dotted-decimal notation for the Ethernet IPv4 address and in
4. Enter the Ethernet Subnetmask at the prompt.
5. Skip Fibre Channel prompts by pressing Enter.
6. Enter the Gateway Address at the prompt.
7. Disable DHCP by entering off.

DHCP activation

By default, some Brocade switches have DHCP enabled. The Brocade 48000 and Brocade DCX
and Brocade DCX-4S enterprise-class platforms do not support DHCP.
The Fabric OS DHCP client supports the following parameters:
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The DHCP client uses a DHCP vendor class identifier that allows DHCP servers to determine that
the Discovers and Requests are coming from a Brocade switch. The vendor class identifier is the
string "BROCADE" followed by the SWBD model number of the platform. For example, the vendor
class identifier for a request from a Brocade 5300 is "BROCADESWBD64."
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Neighbor table overflow.
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Example of setting the IPv4 address:
switch:admin> ipaddrset
Ethernet IP Address [10.1.2.3]:
Ethernet Subnetmask [255.255.255.0]:
Fibre Channel IP Address [220.220.220.2]:
Fibre Channel Subnetmask [255.255.0.0]:
Gateway IP Address [10.1.2.1]:
DHCP [OFF]: off
Example of setting an IPv6 address on a switch:
switch:admin> ipaddrset -ipv6 --add 1080::8:800:200C:417A/64
IP address is being changed...Done.
Example of setting an IP address for a Virtual Fabric in non-interactive mode:
switch:admin> ipaddrset -vf 123 --add 11.1.2.4/24
semicolon-separated notation for IPv6.
The Fibre Channel IP address is used for management.
External Ethernet port IP addresses and subnet masks
Default gateway IP address
Fabric OS Administrator's Guide
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