Configuring Ip Address - 3Com Switch 7700 Configuration Manual

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Configuring IP
Address
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ETWORK
This chapter covers the following topics:

Configuring IP Address

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Configuring Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
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DHCP Relay
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IP Performance
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Configuring IPX
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IP address is a 32-bit address represented by four octets. IP addresses are divided
into five classes, A, B, C, D and E. The octets are set according to the first few bits
of the first octet.
The rule for IP address classification is described as follows:
Class A addresses are identified with the first bit of the first octet being 0.
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Class B addresses are identified with the first bits of the first octet being 10.
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Class C addresses are identified with the first bits of the first octet being 110.
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Class D addresses are identified with the first bits of the first octet being 1110.
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Class E addresses are identified with the first bits of the first octet being 11110.
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Addresses of Classes A, B and C are unicast addresses. The Class D addresses are
multicast addresses and Class E addresses are reserved for future uses.
At present, IP addresses are mostly Class A, Class B and Class C. IP addresses of
Classes A, B and C are composed of two parts, network ID and host ID. Their
network ID lengths are different.
Class A IP addresses use only the first octet to indicate the network ID.
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Class B IP addresses use the first two octets to indicate the network ID.
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Class C IP addresses use the first three octets to indicate the network ID.
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At most, there are: 28 =128 Class A addresses, 216=16384 Class B addresses and
224=2,097,152 Class C addresses.
The IP address is in dotted decimal format. Each IP address contains 4 integers in
dotted decimal notation. Each integer corresponds to one byte,
e.g.,10.110.50.101.
Configuring an IP Address is described in the following sections:
Subnet and Mask
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P
ROTOCOL
O
PERATION