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Secondary Ip Address

To set a primary or secondary IP address on an interface, use the ip address command. An interface can have one primary address and multiple secondary addresses. Secondary addresses are treated like primary addresses but the system will not generate datagrams with secondary source addresses. Secondary addresses allow multiple logical subnets to operate on a single physical subnet.

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Secondary Ip Address

To set a primary or secondary IP address on an interface, use the ip address command. An interface can have one primary address and multiple secondary addresses. Secondary addresses are treated like primary addresses but the system will not generate datagrams with secondary source addresses. Secondary addresses allow multiple logical subnets to operate on a single physical subnet.

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ip address

To set a primary or secondary IP address for an interface, use the ip address interface configuration
command. To remove an IP address or disable IP processing, use the no form of this command.

ip address ip-address mask [secondary]


no ip address ip-address mask [secondary]

Syntax Description

ip-address IP address.
mask Mask for the associated IP subnet.
secondary (Optional) Specifies that the configured address is a secondary IP address. If this keyword is
omitted, the configured address is the primary IP address.

Default

No IP address is defined for the interface.

Command Mode

Interface configuration

Usage Guidelines

This command first appeared in Cisco IOS Release 10.0.

An interface can have one primary IP address and multiple secondary IP addresses. Packets generated by the
Cisco IOS software always use the primary IP address. Therefore, all routers and access servers on a segment
should share the same primary network number.

Hosts can determine subnet masks using the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Mask Request
message. Routers respond to this request with an ICMP Mask Reply message.

You can disable IP processing on a particular interface by removing its IP address with the no ip address
command. If the software detects another host using one of its IP addresses, it will print an error message on
the console.

The optional keyword secondary allows you to specify an unlimited number of secondary addresses.
Secondary addresses are treated like primary addresses, except the system never generates datagrams other
than routing updates with secondary source addresses. IP broadcasts and ARP requests are handled properly,
as are interface routes in the IP routing table.

Secondary IP addresses can be used in a variety of situations. The following are the most common
applications:

There may not be enough host addresses for a particular network segment. For example, your
subnetting allows up to 254 hosts per logical subnet, but on one physical subnet you need to have 300
host addresses. Using secondary IP addresses on the routers or access servers allows you to have two
logical subnets using one physical subnet.

Many older networks were built using Level 2 bridges. The judicious use of secondary addresses can
aid in the transition to a subnetted, router-based network. Routers on an older, bridged segment can be
easily made aware that there are many subnets on that segment.

Two subnets of a single network might otherwise be separated by another network. This situation is
not permitted when subnets are in use. In these instances, the first network is extended, or layered on
top of the second network using secondary addresses.

Note If any router on a network segment uses a secondary address, all other devices on that same segment
must also use a secondary address from the same network or subnet. Inconsistent use of secondary addresses
on a network segment can very quickly cause routing loops.

Note When you are routing Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), ensure that all secondary addresses of an
interface fall into the same OSPF area as the primary addresses.

To transparently bridge IP on an interface, you must do two things:

Disable IP routing (specify no ip routing).

Add the interface to a bridge group. (See the bridge-group command.)

To concurrently route and transparently bridge IP on an interface, see the bridge crb command.

Example

In the following example, 131.108.1.27 is the primary address and 192.31.7.17 and 192.31.8.17 are
secondary addresses for Ethernet interface 0:
interface ethernet 0
ip address 131.108.1.27 255.255.255.0
ip address 192.31.7.17 255.255.255.0 secondary
ip address 192.31.8.17 255.255.255.0 secondary

Related Commands

A dagger (+) indicates that the command is documented outside this chapter.

bridge crb +
bridge-group +

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