Forwarding udp service requests, Udp helper, Conf – LevelOne GTL-2691 User Manual

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Forwarding UDP Service Requests

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P

ARAMETERS

These parameters are displayed:

IP Address – IP address assigned to host.

MAC Address – MAC address of host.

Lease Time – Duration that this IP address can be used by the host.

Start Time – Time this address was assigned by the switch.

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NTERFACE

To show the addresses assigned to DHCP clients:

1.

Click IP Service, DHCP, Server.

2.

Select Show IP Binding from the Step list.

Figure 370: Shows Addresses Assigned by the DHCP Server

F

ORWARDING

UDP S

ERVICE

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EQUESTS

This section describes how this switch can forward UDP broadcast packets

originating from host applications to another part of the network when an

local application server is not available.

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Network hosts occasionally use UDP broadcasts to determine

information such as address configuration, and domain name mapping.

These broadcasts are confined to the local subnet, either as an all hosts

broadcast (all ones broadcast - 255.255.255.255), or a directed subnet

broadcast (such as 10.10.10.255). To reduce the number of application

servers deployed in a multi-segment network, UDP helper can be used

to forward broadcast packets for specified UDP application ports to

remote servers located in another network segment.

To configure UDP helper, enable it globally (see

"Configuring General

DNS Service Parameters" on page 595

), specify the UDP destination

ports for which broadcast traffic will be forwarded (see

"Specifying UDP

Destination Ports" on page 612

), and specify the remote application

servers or the subnet where the servers are located (see

"Specifying

The Target Server or Subnet" on page 614

).

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