Devices running Layer 3 software
Before attaching equipment to a RUCKUS ICX device running Layer 3 software, you must assign an interface IP address to the subnet on which the device will be located. You must use the serial connection to assign the first IP address. For subsequent addresses, you also can use the CLI through Telnet.
By default, you can configure up to 24 IP interfaces on each port, virtual interface, and loopback interface. You can increase this amount to up to 64 IP subnet addresses per port by increasing the size of the subnet-per-interface table.
The following procedure shows how to add an IP address and mask to a router port.
- At the opening CLI prompt, enter
enable. - Enter the following command at the privileged EXEC level prompt, and then press
Enter. This command erases the factory test configuration if still present.Caution: Use theerase startup-configcommand 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 thewrite memorycommand to save the running configuration to the startup-config file. - Access the global configuration level of the CLI by entering the following command.
- Configure the IP addresses and mask addresses for the interfaces on the router.
Note: You can use the
ip addressip-addr/mask-bits command if you know the subnet mask length. In the previous example, you could enter ip address 10.22.3.44/24.Use the secondary option of the
ip addresscommand parameter if you have already configured an IP address within the same subnet on the interface.