H3C Technologies H3C WX3000 Series Unified Switches - Manual (Page 294)

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While allowing you to create multiple logical networks within a single Class A, B, or C network,
subnetting is transparent to the rest of the Internet. All these networks still appear as one. As subnetting
adds an additional level, subnet ID, to the two-level hierarchy with IP addressing, IP routing now
involves three steps: delivery to the site, delivery to the subnet, and delivery to the host.
In the absence of subnetting, some special addresses such as the addresses with the net ID of all zeros
and the addresses with the host ID of all ones, are not assignable to hosts. The same is true of
subnetting. When designing your network, you should note that subnetting is somewhat a tradeoff
between subnets and accommodated hosts. For example, a Class B network can accommodate 65,534
(2
16 – 2. Of the two deducted Class B addresses, one with an all-ones host ID is the broadcast address
and the other with an all-zeros host ID is the network address) hosts before being subnetted. After you
break it down into 512 (2
9 ) subnets by using the first 9 bits of the host ID for the subnet, you have only 7
bits for the host ID and thus have only 126 (2 7 – 2) hosts in each subnet. The maximum number of hosts
is thus 64,512 (512 × 126), 1022 less after the network is subnetted.
Class A, B, and C networks, before being subnetted, use these default masks (also called natural
masks): 255.0.0.0, 255.255.0.0, and 255.255.255.0 respectively.
Configuring IP Addresses
The device supports assigning IP addresses to VLAN interfaces and loopback interfaces. Besides
directly assigning an IP address to a VLAN interface, you may configure a VLAN interface to obtain an
IP address through BOOTP or DHCP as alternatives. If you change the way an interface obtains an IP
address, from manual assignment to BOOTP for example, the IP address obtained from BOOTP will
overwrite the old one manually assigned.
This chapter only covers how to assign an IP address manually. For the other two approaches to IP
address assignment, refer to the part discussing DHCP in H3C WX3000 Series Unified Switches
Switching Engine Configuration Guide .
Follow these steps to assign an IP address to an interface:
To do… Use the command… Remarks
Enter system view system-view ––
Enter interface view
interface interface-type
interface-number
––
Assign an IP address to the
interface ip address ip-address { mask |
mask-length } [ sub ]
Required
No IP address is assigned by
default.