Configuring Ip Addresses - 3Com 4500 Configuration Manual

subnetting. When designing your network, you should note that subnetting is somewhat a tradeoff
between subnets and accommodated hosts. For example, a Class B network can accommodate 65,534
16
(2 – 2. Of the two deducted Class B addresses, one with an all-ones host ID is the broadcast address
and the other with an all-zero host ID is the network address) hosts before being subnetted. After you
break it down into 512 (2
bits for the host ID and thus have only 126 (2
is thus 64,512 (512 × 126), 1022 less after the network is subnetted.
Class A, B, and C networks, before being subnetted, use these default masks (also called natural
masks): 255.0.0.0, 255.255.0.0, and 255.255.255.0 respectively.

Configuring IP Addresses

Configuring IP Addresses
S4500 Series Ethernet Switches support assigning IP addresses to loopback interfaces and VLAN
interfaces.
A loopback interface is a virtual interface. The physical layer state and link layer protocols of a loopback
interface are always up unless the loopback interface is manually shut down. A loopback interface can
be configured with an IP address, so routing protocols can be enabled on a loopback interface, and a
loopback interface is capable of sending and receiving routing protocol packets.
Each VLAN needs an IP address so that it can be addressed. For more information about VLAN
interfaces, refer to VLAN Operation in this manual.
Besides directly assigning an IP address to a VLAN interface, you may configure a VLAN interface to
obtain an IP address through BOOTP or DHCP as alternatives. If you change the way an interface
obtains an IP address, from manual assignment to BOOTP for example, the IP address obtained from
BOOTP will overwrite the old one manually assigned.
This chapter only covers how to assign an IP address manually. For the other two approaches, refer to
the part discussing DHCP.
Follow these steps to configure an IP address for an interface:
To do...
Enter system view
Enter interface view
Assign an IP address to
the Interface
9
) subnets by using the first 9 bits of the host ID for the subnet, you have only 7
7
– 2) hosts in each subnet. The maximum number of hosts
Use the command...
system-view
interface interface-type
interface-number
ip address ip-address { mask |
mask-length }
1-3
Remarks
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Required
No IP address is assigned by
default.