Assigning an IP address to a virtual interface

A virtual interface is a logical port associated with a Layer 3 Virtual LAN (VLAN) configured on a Layer 3 switch. You can configure routing parameters on the virtual interface to enable the Layer 3 switch to route protocol traffic from one Layer 3 VLAN to the other, without using an external router.
NOTE
The Brocade feature that allows routing between VLANs within the same device, without the need for external routers, is called Integrated Switch Routing (ISR).

You can configure IP routing interface parameters on a virtual interface. This section describes how to configure an IP address on a virtual interface. Other sections in this chapter that describe how to configure interface parameters also apply to virtual interfaces.

NOTE
The Layer 3 switch uses the lowest MAC address on the device (the MAC address of port 1 or 1/1/1) as the MAC address for all ports within all virtual interfaces you configure on the device.

To add a virtual interface to a VLAN and configure an IP address on the interface, enter commands such as the following. 

device(config)# vlan 2 name IP-Subnet_10.1.2.0/24
device(config-vlan-2)# untag ethernet 1 to 4
device(config-vlan-2)# router-interface ve 1
device(config-vlan-2)# interface ve 1
device(config-vif-1)# ip address 10.1.2.1/24

The first two commands in this example create a Layer 3 protocol-based VLAN name "IP-Subnet_10.1.2.0/24" and add a range of untagged ports to the VLAN. The router-interface command creates virtual interface 1 as the routing interface for the VLAN.

Syntax: router-interface ve num

The num variable specifies the virtual interface number. You can enter a number from 1 through 4095.

When configuring virtual routing interfaces on a device, you can specify a number from 1 through 4095. However, the total number of virtual routing interfaces that are configured must not exceed the system-max limit of 512 (or 255 for the ICX 7150).

The last two commands move the configuration to the interface configuration mode for the virtual interface and assign an IP address to the interface.

Syntax: interface ve num

Parent topic: Configuring IP addresses