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Brocade Fabric OS Administrator's Guide Supporting Fabric OS v6.3.0 (53-1001336-02, November 2009)

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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide 9
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The Ethernet interface on your switch
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3. Enter the network information in dotted-decimal notation for the Ethernet IPv4 address and in
semicolon-separated notation for IPv6.
4. Enter the Ethernet Subnetmask at the prompt.
5. Skip Fibre Channel prompts by pressing Enter.
The Fibre Channel IP address is used for management.
6. Enter the Gateway Address at the prompt.
7. Disable DHCP by entering off.
Setting the static addresses for the chassis IP management interface
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the ipAddrSet -chassis command.
Example of setting the chassis IPv4 address
switch:admin> ipaddrset -chassis
Ethernet IP Address [192.168.166.148]:
Ethernet Subnetmask [255.255.255.0]:
Committing configuration...Done.
3. Enter the network information in dotted-decimal notation for the Ethernet IPv4 address and in
semicolon-separated notation for IPv6.
4. Enter the Ethernet Subnetmask at the prompt.
DHCP activation
By default, some Brocade switches have DHCP enabled. The Brocade 48000 and Brocade DCX and
Brocade DCX-4S enterprise-class platforms do not support DHCP.
The Fabric OS DHCP client supports the following parameters:
• External Ethernet port IP addresses and subnet masks
• Default gateway IP address
The DHCP client uses a DHCP vendor class identifier that allows DHCP servers to determine that
the Discovers and Requests are coming from a Brocade switch. The vendor class identifier is the
string “BROCADE” followed by the SWBD model number of the platform. For example, the vendor
class identifier for a request from a Brocade 5300 is “BROCADESWBD64.”
NOTE
The client conforms to the latest IETF Draft Standard RFCs for IPv4, IPv6, and DHCP.
Activating DHCP
Connect the DHCP-enabled switch to the network, power on the switch, and the switch
automatically obtains the Ethernet IP address, Ethernet subnet mask, and default gateway address
from the DHCP server. The DHCP client can only connect to a DHCP server on the same subnet as
the switch. Do not enable DHCP if the DHCP server is not on the same subnet as the switch.