Brocade ICX 6610 Stackable Switch Hardware Installation Guide - Manual (Page 65)

Configuring IP addresses
You must configure at least one IP address using the serial connection to the CLI before you can
manage the system using the other management interfaces.
Brocade devices support both classical IP network masks (Class A, B, and C subnet masks, and so on)
and Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR) network prefix masks.
• To enter a classical network mask, enter the mask in IP address format. For example, enter
"10.157.22.99 255.255.255.0" for an IP address with a Class-C subnet mask.
• To enter a prefix number for a network mask, enter a forward slash ( / ) and the number of bits in
the mask immediately after the IP address. For example, enter 10.157.22.99 /24 for an IP address
that has a network mask with 24 significant ("mask") bits.
By default, the CLI displays network masks in classical IP address format (example: 255.255.255.0).
You can change the display to the prefix format.
Devices running Layer 2 software
Use the following procedure to configure an IP address on a device running Layer 2 software.
1. At the opening CLI prompt, enter enable.
device> enable
2. Enter the following command at the Privileged EXEC level prompt (for example, ICX 624 Router# ),
then press Enter. This command erases the factory test configuration if it is still present:
device# erase startup-config
CAUTION
Use the erase startup-config command 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 the write memory
command to save the running configuration to the startup-config file.
3. Access the global configuration level of the CLI by entering the following command:
device# configure terminal
device(config)#
4. Configure the IP address and mask for the switch.
device(config)# ip address 10.22.3.44 255.255.255.0
5. Set a default gateway address for the switch.
device(config)# ip default-gateway 10.22.3.1
NOTE
You do not need to assign a default gateway address for single subnet networks.
Syntax: enable [ password ]
Syntax: configure terminal
Syntax: [no] ip address { ip-addr ip-mask | ip-addr/mask-bits }
Syntax: [no] ip default-gateway ip-addr
Configuring IP addresses
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