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

[rogelioalvez]

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)                  

[ajayku2 · Accepted solution]

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

[rogelioalvez]

Thx a lot Ajay!

I will go thru the vlan interface then.

Best regards, Rogelio