C4948 - configure management IP?

[SchinkelA]

The subject doesn't explain the whole situation,

I am bridging three locations in my building using pairs of 1GB ports on C4948 switches.

In this case, I have two 'all vlan' trunks on port 1 and 2 from Switch A to Switch B.

Switch A is already configured with a management IP.

I need to configure Switch B with a management IP, preferably it is something that can be configured on port 1 or 2 without interfering with the two 1GB trunks already configured.

Is this possible, and if so, how?

Thank you.

[Giuseppe Larosa]

Hello ShinkeIA,

usually you can configure an SVI L3 interface that is associated to a specific Vlan-id for example

interface vlan 100

description management

ip address 10.101.100.22 255.255.255.0

the question with C4948 is that it may have a built VRF for management to separate management from user traffic

you can also have a routed interface to be used as out of band management

in this case

you use

interface gix/y

no switchport

ip address 10.101.200.23 255.255.255.0

in both cases if the interfaces need to be part of vrf management you need to configure

ip vrf forwarding mgmt

+

retype ip address command

where mgmt is a name for the VRF

see

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst4500/12.2/54sg/configuration/guide/supcfg.html#wp1020891

Hope to help

Giuseppe