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Parameter
Description
Default
Static RARP entries An IP address you place in the RARP table for RARP requests
from hosts.
NOTE
You must enter the RARP entries manually. The Layer 3 Switch
does not have a mechanism for learning or dynamically generating
RARP entries.
No entries
Maximum BootP
relay hops
The maximum number of hops away a BootP server can be
located from a router and still be used by the router clients for
network booting.
Four
Domain name for
Domain Name
Server (DNS)
resolver
A domain name (example: brocade.router.com) you can use in
place of an IP address for certain operations such as IP pings,
trace routes, and Telnet management connections to the router.
None configured
DNS default
gateway addresses
A list of gateways attached to the router through which clients
attached to the router can reach DNSs.
None configured
IP load sharing
A Brocade feature that enables the router to balance traffic to a
specific destination across multiple equal-cost paths.
IP load sharing uses a hashing algorithm based on the source IP
address, destination IP address, protocol field in the IP header,
TCP, and UDP information.
NOTE
Load sharing is sometimes called Equal Cost Multi Path (ECMP).
Enabled
Maximum IP load
sharing paths
The maximum number of equal-cost paths across which the Layer
3 Switch is allowed to distribute traffic.
Four
Origination of
default routes
You can enable a router to originate default routes for the following
route exchange protocols, on an individual protocol basis:
• OSPF
• BGP4
Disabled
Default network
route
The router uses the default network route if the IP route table does
not contain a route to the destination and also does not contain an
explicit default route (0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 or 0.0.0.0/0).
None configured
Static route
An IP route you place in the IP route table.
No entries
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