9-4 
Interface                   Physical Protocol IP Address      Description 
Vlan-interface1             up       up       6.6.6.6         Vlan-inte... 
Vlan-interface2             up       up       7.7.7.7         VLAN2 
Table 9-2 display ip interface brief command output description  
Field  Description 
*down: administratively 
down 
The interface is administratively shut down with the 
shutdown
 command. 
(s) : spoofing 
Spoofing attribute of the interface. It indicates that an interface whose network layer 
protocol is displayed up may have no link present or the link is set up only on 
demand.  
Interface Interface name 
Physical 
Physical state of interface , which can be 
z  *down: Indicates that the interface is administratively down; that is, the interface 
is shut down with the shutdown command. 
z  down: Indicates that the interface is administratively up but its physical state is 
down, which may be caused by a connection or link failure. 
z  up: Indicates that both the administrative and physical states of the interface are 
up. 
Protocol 
Link layer protocol state of interface, which can be 
z  down: Indicates that the protocol state of the interface is down, which is usually 
because that no IP address is assigned to the interface. 
z  up: Indicates that the protocol state of the interface is up. 
IP Address  IP address of interface (If no IP address is configured, “unassigned” is displayed.) 
Description 
Interface description information, for which at most 12 characters can be displayed. 
If there are more that 12 characters, only the first nine characters are displayed. 
 
ip address 
Syntax 
ip address ip-address { mask | mask-length } [ sub ] 
undo ip address [ ip-address { mask | mask-length } [ sub ] ] 
View 
Interface view 
Default Level 
2: System level 
Parameters 
ip-address: IP address of interface, in dotted decimal notation.  
mask: Subnet mask in dotted decimal notation.  
mask-length: Subnet mask length, the number of consecutive ones in the mask.  
sub: Secondary IP address for the interface. 
Description  
Use the ip address command to assign an IP address and mask to the interface.  
Use the undo ip address command to remove all IP addresses.