• Multicast protocols:
– Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
– Protocol Independent Multicast Dense (PIM-DM)
– Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse (PIM-SM)
• Router redundancy protocols:
– Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol Extended (VRRP-E)
– Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
IP interfaces
NOTE
This section describes IPv4 addresses. For information about IPv6 addresses on FastIron X Series devices, refer to the "IPv6
addressing overview" section in the FastIron Ethernet Switch Administration Guide .
Brocade Layer 3 switches and Layer 2 switches allow you to congure IP addresses. On Layer 3 switches, IP addresses are associated
with individual interfaces. On Layer 2 switches, a single IP address serves as the management access address for the entire device.
All Brocade Layer 3 switches and Layer 2 switches support conguration and display of IP addresses in classical subnet format (for
example, 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0) and Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR) format (for example, 192.168.1.1/24). You can use
either format when conguring IP address information. IP addresses are displayed in classical subnet format by default but you can
change the display format to CIDR. Refer to Changing the network mask display to prex format on page 125.
Layer 3 switches
Brocade Layer 3 switches allow you to
congure IP addresses on the following types of interfaces:
• Ethernet ports
• Virtual routing interfaces (used by VLANs to route among one another)
• Loopback interfaces
• GRE tunnels
Each IP address on a Layer 3 switch must be in a dierent subnet. You can have only one interface that is in a given subnet. For example,
you can congure IP addresses 192.168.1.1/24 and 192.168.2.1/24 on the same Layer 3 switch, but you cannot congure
192.168.1.1/24 and 192.168.1.2/24 on the same Layer 3 switch.
You can congure multiple IP addresses on the same interface.
The number of IP addresses you can congure on an individual interface depends on the Layer 3 switch model. To display the maximum
number of IP addresses and other system parameters you can congure on a Layer 3 switch, refer to "Displaying and modifying system
parameter default settings" section in the FastIron Ethernet Switch Platform and Layer 2 Switching Conguration Guide .
You can use any of the IP addresses you congure on the Layer 3 switch for Telnet, Web management, or SNMP access.
Layer 2 switches
You can
congure an IP address on a Brocade Layer 2 switch for management access to the Layer 2 switch. An IP address is required
for Telnet access, Web management access, and SNMP access.
You also can specify the default gateway for forwarding trac to other subnets.
IP conguration overview
FastIron Ethernet Switch Layer 3 Routing
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