Management Vlan; Static Route; Chapter 1 Management Vlan Configuration; Introduction To Management Vlan - H3C S5100-SI Series Operation Manual

Operation Manual – Management VLAN
H3C S5100-SI/EI Series Ethernet Switches

Chapter 1 Management VLAN Configuration

1.1 Introduction to Management VLAN

1.1.1 Management VLAN

To manage an Ethernet switch remotely through Telnet or the built-in Web server, the
switch need to be assigned an IP address, and make sure that a route exists between
the user and the switch. As for an H3C series Layer 2 Ethernet switch, only the
management VLAN interface can be assigned an IP address.
The management VLAN interface of a switch can obtain an IP address in one of the
following three ways:
Through the command used to configure IP address
Through BOOTP (In this case, the switch operates as a BOOTP client.)
Through dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) (In this case, the switch
operates as a DHCP client)
The three ways of obtaining an IP address cannot be configured at the same time. That
is, the latest IP address obtained causes the previously IP address to be released. For
example, if you assign an IP address to a VLAN interface by using the corresponding
commands and then apply for another IP address through BOOTP (using the ip
address bootp-alloc command), the former 0IP address will be released, and the final
IP address of the VLAN interface is the one obtained through BOOTP.
Note:
For details of DHCP, refer to the DHCP module.

1.1.2 Static Route

A static route is configured manually by an administrator. You can make a network with
relatively simple topology to operate properly by simply configuring static routes for it.
Configuring and using static routes wisely helps to improve network performance and
can guarantee bandwidth for important applications.
The disadvantages of static route lie in that: When a fault occurs or the network
topology changes, static routes may become unreachable, which in turn results in
network failures. In this case, manual configurations are needed to recover the
network.
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