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IP address configuration
1. At the opening CLI prompt, enter enable.
2. Enter the following command at the CLI Privileged EXEC level prompt, and then press Enter.
CAUTION
Use the erase startup-config command only for new systems. If you enter this command on a
system you have already configured, the command erases the configuration. If you accidentally
do erase the configuration on a configured system, enter the write memory command to save the
running configuration to the startup-config file.
3. Access the configuration level of the CLI by entering the following command.
4. Configure the IP addresses and mask addresses for the interfaces on the router.
Configuring IP parameters for devices running Layer 3 software
This section describes how to configure IP parameters for devices running Layer 3 software.
Configuring IP addresses
You can configure an IP address on the following types of Layer 3 interfaces:
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By default, you can have up to 24 IP addresses on each interface, but you can increase this number
to 128 IP addresses.
NOTE
Once you configure a virtual routing interface on a VLAN, you cannot configure Layer 3 interface
parameters on individual ports in the VLAN. Instead, you must configure the parameters on the
virtual routing interface itself.
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Brocade> enable
This command erases the factory test configuration if still present.
Brocade# erase startup-config
Brocade# configure terminal (Privileged EXEC Level)
(Global CONFIG Level)
Brocade(config)#
Brocade(config)# interface ethernet 2
Brocade(config)# ip address 10.22.3.44 255.255.255.0
NOTE
You can use the ip address ip-addr/mask-bits command if you know the subnet mask length.
In the example in step 4, you could enter ip address 10.22.3.44/24.
Syntax: [no] ip address ip-addr ip-mask [secondary] or ip-addr/mask-bits [secondary]
Use the secondary parameter if you have already configured an IP address within the same
subnet on the interface.
Ethernet port
Virtual routing interface (also called a Virtual Ethernet or "VE")
Loopback interface
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