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Management ip interface summary – 3Com 3500 User Manual

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interface summary

Displays a summary table about the out-of-band system IP management
interface configuration, including parameter settings.

Valid Minimum Abbreviation

m ip i sum

Fields in the Management IP Interface Summary Display

Field

Description

Index

Unique number that identifies the out-of-band interface

IP address

IP address of the out-of-band interface, chosen from the
range of addresses that the central agency assigned to
your organization. This address is specific to your network
and system.

IP routing status

Whether the interface is available to route IP traffic
(

enabled

) or not (

disabled

)

RIP status

Whether RIP is dynamically configuring its routing tables
(

active

) or on request (

passive

)

State

State of the IP interface, indicating whether the interface
is available for communications (

up

) or unavailable

(

down

).

Subnet mask

32-bit number that uses the same format and
representation as an IP address. The subnet mask
determines which bits in the IP address are interpreted as
the network number, the subnet number, and the host
number. Each IP address bit that corresponds to a 1 in the
subnet mask is in the network/subnet part of the address.
Each IP address bit that corresponds to a 0 is in the host
part of the IP address.

Type

Type of device that is connected to the interface