Brocade Multi-Service IronWare Switching Configuration Guide (Supporting R05.6.00) - Manual (Page 738)

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Basic IP parameters and defaults
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Directed
broadcast
mode The packet format the router treats as a directed
broadcast. The following formats can be directed
broadcast:
•
All ones in the host portion of the packet’s
destination address.
•
All zeroes in the host portion of the packet’s
destination address.
All ones
NOTE: If you enable
all-zeroes
directed
broadcasts,
all-ones
directed
broadcasts
remain
enabled.
Source-routed
packet
forwarding A source-routed packet contains a list of IP addresses
through which the packet must pass to reach its
destination. Enabled
Internet Control
Message
Protocol (ICMP)
messages The Brocade device can send the following types of ICMP
messages:
•
Echo messages (ping messages)
•
Destination Unreachable messages
•
Redirect messages
NOTE: You also can enable or disable ICMP Redirect
messages on an individual interface basis. Refer
to
Table 87 .
Enabled
ICMP Router
Discovery
Protocol (IRDP) An IP protocol a router can use to advertise the IP
addresses of its router interfaces to directly attached
hosts. You can enable or disable the protocol, and
change the following protocol parameters:
•
Forwarding method (broadcast or multicast)
•
Hold time
•
Maximum advertisement interval
•
Minimum advertisement interval
•
Router preference level
NOTE: You also can enable or disable IRDP and
configure the parameters on an individual
interface basis. Refer to
Table 87 .
Disabled
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’s
clients for network booting. Four
Maximum
Frame Size You can set a maximum frame size of all Ethernet frames
that are forwarded by the system.
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 device. None configured
DNS default
gateway
addresses A list of gateways attached to the device through which
clients attached to the device can reach DNS. None configured
TABLE 86 IP global parameters (Continued)
Parameter Description Default