Brocade Virtual ADX Switch and Router Guide (Supporting ADX v03.1.00) - Manual (Page 66)

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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. page 66
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 page 66
Internet Control
Message
Protocol (ICMP)
messages The Virtual ADX 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 4 on page 53.
Enabled page 67
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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 page 84
Domain name
for Domain
Name Server
(DNS) resolver A domain name (example: borcade.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 page 56
DNS default
gateway
addresses A list of gateways attached to the router through which
clients attached to the router can reach DNSs. None configured page 56
IP load sharing A feature that enables the router to balance traffic to a
specific destination across multiple equal-cost paths.
IP load sharing uses a hash mechanism based on
destination address, source address, and the protocol
of the packet to choose one of multiple paths.
NOTE: Load sharing is sometimes called Equal Cost
Multi Path (ECMP).
Enabled page 77
Maximum IP
load sharing
paths The maximum number of equal-cost paths across
which the Layer 3 Switch is allowed to distribute traffic. Four page 81
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 page 76
TABLE 3 IP global parameters (Continued)
Parameter Description Default See
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