R3166-R3206-HP High-End Firewalls Network Management Configuration Guide-6PW101

Item Descri

tion

IP Config

Set how the interface obtains an IP address:

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None—Assigns no IP address to the interface.

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Static Address—Manually assigns an IP address for the interface. After

selecting this option, you must manually set the IP Address/Mask and

Secondary IP Address/Mask options.

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DHCP—Enables the interface to obtain an IP address through DHCP.

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BOOTP—Enables the interface to obtain an IP address through BOOTP.

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PPP Negotiate—Enables the interface to obtain an IP address through PPP

negotiation.

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Unnumbered—Enables the interface to borrow the IP address of another

interface on the same device. After selecting this option, you must set the

Unnumbered Interface item.

IP Address

Mask

After selecting the Static Address option for the IP Config configuration item,

you must set the primary IP address and mask for the interface. The IP address

cannot be 0.0.0.0; for a loopback interface, the mask is fixed to 32 bits and

is not configurable.

Secondary IP Address

Mask

After selecting the Static Address option for the IP Config configuration item,

you can set multiple secondary IP addresses and masks for the interface. After

setting a secondary IP address for the interface, click Add to add the

secondary IP address to the secondary IP address list.

The IP address cannot be 0.0.0.0; for a loopback interface, the mask is fixed

to 32 bits and is not configurable.

Unnumbered Interface

After you select the Unnumbered option for the IP Config configuration item,

choose the interface whose IP address you want to borrow from the

Unnumbered Interface drop-down list.

Modifying interface information

Select Device Management > Interface from the navigation tree to enter the page shown in Figure 1. Click

the icon corresponding to an interface to enter the page for modifying the information of the

interface, as shown in Figure 4.