Chapter 9: IPv4 and IPv6 Management Addresses
202 Section II: Basic Operations
Overview
The features that are listed in Table 11 require that the switch be assigned
a management IP address. The switch uses the address to identify itself to
other network devices, such as TFTP servers and Telnet clients.
You can assign the switch an IPv4 address and an IPv6 address, but only
one of each type. However, as shown in the table, a management IPv6
address does not support all the features. To use features that are not
supported by an IPv6 address, you must assign the switch an IPv4
address instead of or along with an IPv6 address.
Table 11. Features that Require an IP Management Address
Feature Description
Supported
by IPv4
Address
Supported
by IPv6
Address
802.1x port-based network
access control
Used for port security. yes
Enhanced stacking Used to manage more than
one switch from the same local
or remote management
session.
yes
Ping Used to test for valid links
between the switch and other
network devices.
yes yes
SNTP client Used to obtain the date and
time from an SNTP or NTP
server on your network or the
Internet.
yes
RADIUS client Used for remote management
authentication and for 802.1x
port-based network access
control.
yes
RMON Used with the RMON portion
of the MIB tree on an SNMP
workstation to remotely
monitor the switch.
yes
Secure Shell server Used to remotely manage the
switch with a Secure Shell
client.
yes yes
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