Lucent Technologies P550 User Manual

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Monitoring and Configuring the Forwarding Cache (Layer 3)

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Cajun P550/P220 Switch Operation Guide

2. Use Table 11-1 to complete your fowarding cache configuration:

Table 11-1. Layer 3 Cache Configuration - Tree Configuration

Tree Configuration

Field...

For the
protocol...

Allows you to...

Hash Depth

IP Unicast

IP Multicast

IPX

Configure the hash depth for IP unicast, IP
multicast, and IPX datagrams. Choices
include:

Hash-8 - An 8-bit memory bucket used

to store information about the source or
destination protocol address (or both).

Hash -10 - A 10-bit memory bucket used

to store information about the source or
destination protocol address (or both).

Hash-12 - A 12-bit memory bucket used

to store information about the source or
destination protocol address (or both).

Hash Mode

IP Unicast

IP Multicast

IPX

Configure the table hash lookup mode for the
IP unicast, IP multicast and IPX forwarding
table. Choices include:

DA-only - Forwarding entries input to

the forwarding table are limited to using
protocol destination address only.

SA-DA - Forwarding entries input to the

forwarding table are limited to using
destination and source address only.

Aging

IP Unicast

IP Multicast

IPX

Configure the IP unicast, IP multicast, or IPX
forwarding table entry aging status as either
enabled or disabled.

Age Interval IP Unicast

IP Multicast

IPX

The IP unicast, IP multicast, or IPX
forwarding table entry aging period (in
seconds). The default value is 120 seconds.

Maximum
Entries

IP Unicast

IP Multicast

IPX

The number of active entries in the IP
unicast, IP multicast, or IPX forwarding table.
This is the maximum number of active
entries per fabric port. Additional flows are
forwarded by the supervisor module. The
default value is 15000.

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