Management address

A management address is normally an IPv4 or IPv6 address that can be used to manage the device.

Management address advertising has two modes: default, or explicitly configured. The default mode is used when no addresses are configured to be advertised for a given port. If any addresses are configured to be advertised for a given port, then only those addresses are advertised. This applies across address types, so for example, if just one IPv4 address is explicitly configured to be advertised for a port, then no IPv6 addresses will be advertised for that port (since none were configured to be advertised), even if IPv6 addresses are configured within the system.

If no management address is explicitly configured to be advertised, the RUCKUS device will use the first available IPv4 address and the first available IPv6 address (so it may advertise IPv4, IPv6 or both). A Layer 3 switch will select the first available address of each type from those configured on the following types of interfaces, in the following order of preference:

  • Physical port on which LLDP will be transmitting the packet
  • Virtual router interface (VE) on a VLAN that the port is a member of
  • Dedicated management port

For IPv6 addresses, link-local and anycast addresses will be excluded from these searches.

If no IP address is configured on any of the above, the port's current MAC address will be advertised.

Parent topic: LLDP TLVs advertised by the RUCKUS device