Administrator Guide

Management Interfaces
The system supports the Management Ethernet interface as well as the standard interface on any port. You can use either method to
connect to the system.
Configuring Management Interfaces
The dedicated Management interface provides management access to the system.
You can configure this interface using the CLI, but the configuration options on this interface are limited. You cannot configure Gateway
addresses and IP addresses if it appears in the main routing table of Dell EMC Networking OS. In addition, proxy ARP is not supported on
this interface.
To configure a management interface, use the following commands.
• Enter the slot and the port (1) to configure a Management interface.
CONFIGURATION mode
interface managementethernet interface
The slot range is 1.
The port range is 1.
• Configure an IP address and mask on a Management interface.
INTERFACE mode
ip address ip-address mask
• ip-address mask: enter an address in dotted-decimal format (A.B.C.D). The mask must be in /prefix format (/x).
You can configure two global IPv6 addresses on the system in EXEC Privilege mode. To view the addresses, use the show interface
managementethernet command, as shown in the following example. If you try to configure a third IPv6 address, an error message
displays. If you enable auto-configuration, all IPv6 addresses on that management interface are auto-configured. The first IPv6 address
that you configure on the management interface is the primary address. If deleted, you must re-add it; the secondary address is not
promoted.
The following rules apply to having two IPv6 addresses on a management interface:
• IPv6 addresses on a single management interface cannot be in the same subnet.
• IPv6 secondary addresses on management interfaces:
• across a platform must be in the same subnet.
• must not match the virtual IP address and must not be in the same subnet as the virtual IP.
DellEMC#show interfaces managementethernet 1/1
ManagementEthernet 1/1 is up, line protocol is up
Hardware is DellForce10Eth, address is 00:01:e8:a0:bf:f3
Current address is 00:01:e8:a0:bf:f3
Pluggable media not present
Interface index is 302006472
Internet address is 10.16.130.5/16
Link local IPv6 address: fe80::201:e8ff:fea0:bff3/64
Global IPv6 address: 1::1/
Global IPv6 address: 2::1/64
Virtual-IP is not set
Virtual-IP IPv6 address is not set
MTU 1554 bytes, IP MTU 1500 bytes
LineSpeed 1000 Mbit, Mode full duplex
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:06:14
Queueing strategy: fifo
Input 791 packets, 62913 bytes, 775 multicast
Received 0 errors, 0 discarded
Output 21 packets, 3300 bytes, 20 multicast
Output 0 errors, 0 invalid protocol
Time since last interface status change: 00:06:03
If there are two RPMs on the system, configure each Management interface with a different IP address. Unless you configure the
management route command, you can only access the Management interface from the local LAN. To access the Management
interface from another LAN, configure the management route command to point to the Management interface.
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