Avaya 580 - Manual (Page 332)

12-4 User Guide for the Avaya P580 and P882 Multiservice Switches, v6.1
Chapter 12
Routing Configuration Quickstart
This section provides an overview of the how to configure the Avaya
Multiservice switch as a IP router.
To configure the switch as a IP router:
1. Ensure that physical port parameters and cabling are correctly
configured before creating VLANs. See Chapter 8 , “ Configuring
Ports ”.
2. Create a VLAN (each VLAN is an IP subnet). See “ Creating and
Implementing VLANs ,” in Chapter 6 , “ Using VLANs, Hunt Groups,
and VTP Snooping .”
3. Assign switch ports to the VLAN. See “ Configuring Switch Ports
Settings ”, in Chapter 8 ,” Configuring Ports .”
4. Configure an IP interface, IP address and subnet mask, for each VLAN
and associated subnet.
5. Globally enable IP Forwarding (Routing).
6. Enable the routing protocol on an interface.
7. Specify how the router will communicate with other routers, by
configuring RIPv1, RIPv2 or OSPF v2 parameters.
* Note: The IP interfaces should be set to the ADMIN state Down.
8. Set the IP interface Admin State to Up.
Displaying Existing IP Interfaces
When you create an IP interface, you activate a location in the switch that
communicates between IP and the embedded software of the switch. You
can create an IP interface using either the Web Agent or the CLI.
Web Agent
Procedure To display, modify, delete a previously created IP interfaces or to create a
new IP interface using the Web Agent:
1. In the navigation pane, expand the Routing > IP > Configuration
folders, and then click Interfaces. The IP Interfaces Web page is
displayed in the content pane. See
Figure 12-2 .