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Brocade VDX 6740 Hardware Reference Manual
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Setting the switch IP address
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switch(config)#
interface Management 1/0
3. Configure the IP address using the following command:
switch(config-Management-1/0)#
ip address dhcp
Setting a static IP address
Complete the following steps to set a static IP address.
1. Log in to the switch using the default password (the default password is
password
).
2. Use the ip address command to set the Ethernet IP address.
If you are going to use an IPv4 IP address, enter the IP address in dotted decimal notation. You
should also disable DHCP and enter a gateway address as well.
switch(config)#
interface Management 1/0
switch(config-Management-1/0)#
no ip address dhcp
switch(config-Management-1/0)#
ip address 10.24.85.81/20
To set up a default gateway, add an ip route in rbridge mode.
switch(config-rbridge-id-10)#
ip route 0.0.0.0/0 10.24.80.1
switch#
copy running-config startup-config
If you are going to use an IPv6 address, enter the network information in semicolon-separated
notation as prompted after the ipv6 address operand.
switch(config)#
interface Management 1/0
switch(config-Management-1/0)#
no ip address dhcp
switch(config-Management-1/0)#
ipv6 address \
fd00;60;69bc;832;e61f;13ff;fe67;4b94/64
3. To display the configuration, use the show running-config interface Management command.
switch#
show running-config interface Management 1/0
interface Management 1/0
no ip address dhcp
ip address 10.24.85.81/20
ipv6 address fd00;60;69bc;832;e61f;13ff;fe67;4b94/64
no ipv6 address autoconfig
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Stateless IPv6 autoconfiguration
IPv6 allows assignment of multiple IP addresses to each network interface. Each interface is
configured with a link local address in almost all cases, but this address is only accessible from
other hosts on the same network. To provide for wider accessibility, interfaces are typically
configured with at least one additional global scope IPv6 address. IPv6 autoconfiguration allows
more IPv6 addresses, the number of which is dependent on the number of routers serving the local
network and the number of prefixes they advertise.
When IPv6 autoconfiguration is enabled, the platform will engage in stateless IPv6
autoconfiguration. When IPv6 autoconfiguration is disabled, the platform will relinquish usage of
any autoconfigured IPv6 addresses that it may have acquired while IPv6 autoconfiguration was
enabled. This same enabled or disabled state also enables or disables the usage of a link local
address for each managed entity (though a link local address will continue to be generated for
each switch) because those link local addresses are required for router discovery.
