5–Managing SwitchesConfiguring the Network5-30 59266-01 BFigure 5-15. Network Properties Dialog BoxesNetwork IP ConfigurationThe IP configuration identifies the switch on the Ethernet network, determineswhich network discovery method to use, and enables/disables the IPv4 and IPv6network addressing. An IPv4 address is 32 bits and consists of four blocks ofdecimal numbers, with each block separated by a period. Each block can have upto three numbers. A single zero character displayed in a block indicates that theblock consists of all zeroes. An example of an IPv4 address is 10.20.30.5. All fourblocks contain numbers. Table 5-4 describes the IPv4 and IPv6 configurationparameters.An IPv6 address provides a much wider range of IP addresses than an IPv4address. An IPv6 address is 128 bits, and consists of eight blocks of hexadecimalnumbers, with each block separated by a colon. The maximum number ofnumerals in each block is four. One or more blocks with all zeroes are representedby two colon characters. The total number of blocks always adds up to eight. Todetermine how many contiguous blocks contain only zeroes, subtract the numberof populated blocks from eight. For example, the IPv6 address2eee::49:24:7a:54:3434 is equivalent to 2eee:0000:0000:49:24:7a:54:3434. Thenumber of blocks containing zeroes in this example is two (8-6=2).
