Displaying Ip And Slip Information; Enabling And Disabling Bootp - 3Com SuperStack II Manual

Displaying IP and SLIP
Information
Enabling and
Disabling BOOTP
You can display IP and SLIP information for the current Switch unit in the
stack using the
display
For more information about IP and SLIP, see
Network" on page
To display the IP and SLIP information:
At the Top-level menu, enter:
ip interface display
The IP and SLIP information for the Switch is displayed.
An example of the IP and SLIP information is shown below:
IP address
Subnet mask:
Default gateway:
SLIP address:
SLIP subnet mask
If you have a BOOTP server on your network, you can use that server to
allocate IP information for the Switch units in the stack automatically.
You can specify whether the Switch uses BOOTP by using the
command on the IP/Interface menu.
To specify that the Switch uses BOOTP:
1 At the Top-level menu, enter:
ip interface bootp
The following prompt is displayed:
Enter new value (enable, disable) [enable]:
2 Enter to specify that the Switch uses BOOTP, or
enable
specify that it does not.
In order for BOOTP to work, the IP configuration must be set to 0.0.0.0.
Use the
ip initializeConfig
configuration. For more information, see
Configuration" on
After BOOTP is enabled, you need to power cycle the unit before BOOTP
starts operating.
Displaying and Changing IP-related Information
command on the IP/Interface menu.
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191.100.40.120
255.255.0.0
191.100.40.121
191.100.40.120
255.255.0.0
command to clear any existing IP
page 136.
"Managing a Switch Over the
bootp
disable
"Resetting the IP
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