Dell Force10 S55T S55 Configuration Guide FTOS 8.3.5.3 - Page 768

www.dell.com | support.dell.com Assign an IP address to a VLAN VLANs are a Layer 2 feature. For two physical interfaces on different VLANs to communicate, you must assign an IP address to the VLANs to route traffic between the two interfaces. The shutdown command in INTERFACE mode does not affect Layer 2 traffic on the interface; the shutdown command only prevents Layer 3 traffic from traversing over the interface. Note: An IP address cannot be assigned to the Default VLAN, which, by default, is VLAN 1. To assign another VLAN ID to the Default VLAN, use the default vlan-id vlan-id command. To assign an IP address, use the following command in INTERFACE mode: Command Syntax Command Mode Purpose ip address ip-address mask [secondary] INTERFACE Configure an IP address and mask on the interface. • ip-address mask - Enter an address in dotted-decimal format (A.B.C.D) and the mask must be in slash format (/24). • secondary - This is the interface's backup IP address. You can configure up to eight secondary IP addresses. In FTOS, VLANs and other logical interfaces can be placed in Layer 3 mode to receive and send routed traffic. For details, see Bulk Configuration on page 306. VLAN Interface Counters VLAN counters can be enabled for either Ingress packets, egress packets, or both. VLAN counters are disabled by default, and are supported on E-Series ExaScale exonly. Command Syntax Command Mode Purpose enable vlan-counter [ingress | egress | all] CONFIGURATION Configure ingress, egress or both counters for VLAN interfaces. To return to the default without any VLAN counters, enter no enable vlan-counter. Note: VLAN output counters may show higher than expected values because source-suppression drops are counted. Native VLANs Traditionally, ports can be either untagged for membership to one VLAN or tagged for membership to multiple VLANs. An untagged port must be connected to a VLAN-unaware station (one that does not understand VLAN tags), and a tagged port must be connected to a VLAN-aware station (one that generates and understands VLAN tags). 768 | Virtual LANs (VLAN)