topic ACE4710: ¿ can´t I assign IP address to a physical Ethernet port? in Application Networking

ACE4710: ¿ can´t I assign IP address to a physical Ethernet port?

rogelioalvez — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:00:18 GMT

Hello team.

I suspect I will receive a "no" as the answer, but I would appreciate confirmation anyway

My customer wants each ACE4710 (of a highly available cluster) to have its own, dedicated port for management purposes.

According to documentation, IP addressing can be applied to VLAN interfaces, so in order to satisfy the requirement, I should make one port belong to an "access VLAN X", and then apply IP addressing to the corresponding "interface VLAN X". This should satisfy my customer´s requirement in an indirect way.

But... ¿ Can´t I just configure IP address on one of the 4 ethernet ports in order to save the work of building the aforementioned VLAN? I am asking this since I do not have access to a real box in order to verify.

Your kind answers will be greatly appreciated.

Regards, Rogelio (Argentina)

ACE4710: ¿ can´t I assign IP address to a physical Ethernet po

ajayku2 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:21:29 GMT

Hi ROgelio,

You are right there is no way to assign IP address to physical interface.

ace-4710-1/Admin(config)# int gigabitEthernet 1/1

ace-4710-1/Admin(config-if)# ip ?

% invalid command

cdn-ace-4710-1/Admin(config-if)# ?

Interface config commands:

carrier-delay Set port up delay value

channel-group Map physical port to port channel

description Interface specific description

do EXEC command

duplex Configure duplex operation

end Exit from configure mode

exit Exit from this submode

ft-port Make physical port specific for Fault Tolerance(FT)

no Negate a command or set its defaults

qos Configure QoS operation

shutdown Shut down the interface

speed Configure speed operation

switchport Set switching mode characteristics

So there is no option to configure an IP address on physical interface.

regards,

Ajay Kumar

ACE4710: ¿ can´t I assign IP address to a physical Ethernet po

rogelioalvez — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:30:14 GMT

Thx a lot Ajay!

I will go thru the vlan interface then.

Best regards, Rogelio