Gigabit Ethernet Switch User's Manual

WGS3 Layer 3 Switch User’s Manual
- 178 -
5.7.5.1.1 Adding an IP Interface
To add an IP interface, specify the interface settings in the dialog box at the bottom of the screen.
Configure the IP address, assign an existing VLAN group to this interface, enable the required routing
protocols, and then press Add. To configure the unicast and multicast routing protocols, you must edit an
existing entry (as described in the following section) and press the Advanced button for RIP or DVMRP.
5.7.5.1.2 Modifying an IP Interface
To modify an IP interface, click on the edit icon (
) for the required entry, update the interface settings in
the dialog box at the bottom of the screen, use the Advanced button to configure the unicast and
multicast routing protocols (as described in the following sections), and then press Save.
5.7.5.1.3 Configuring RIP
The Routing Information Protocol is used to specify how routers exchange routing table information. (See
“6.2.6.1 RIP and RIP-2 Dynamic Routing Protocols”.)
When RIP is enabled on this routing switch, it broadcasts RIP messages to all devices in the network
every 30 seconds, and updates its own routing table when RIP messages are received from other
routers. RIP messages contain both the IP address and a metric for each destination network it knows
about, and the metric indicates the number of hops from this device to the destination network.
You can use the following menu to specify authentication, the protocol used for sending or receiving
routing messages on this port, the default metric used in calculating the best path, and enable or disable
Poison Reverse.