Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Configuring L2 and L3 Relay Features

Table 33-1. Default Ports - UDP Port Numbers Implied By Wildcard

The system limits the number of relay entries to four times the maximum

number of routing interfaces (512 relay entries). There is no limit to the

number of relay entries on an individual interface, and no limit to the number

of servers for a given {interface, UDP port} pair.
Certain configurable DHCP relay options do not apply to relay of other

protocols. You may optionally set a maximum hop count or minimum wait

time using the bootpdhcprelay maxhopcount and bootpdhcprelay

minwaittime commands.
The relay agent relays DHCP packets in both directions. It relays broadcast

packets from the client to one or more DHCP servers, and relays packets to

the client that the DHCP server unicasts back to the relay agent. For other

protocols, the relay agent only relays broadcast packets from the client to the

server. Packets from the server back to the client are assumed to be unicast

directly to the client. Because there is no relay in the return direction for

protocols other than DHCP, the relay agent retains the source IP address from

the original client packet. The relay agent uses a local IP address as the source

IP address of relayed DHCP client packets.
When a switch receives a broadcast UDP packet on a routing interface, the

relay agent verifies that the interface is configured to relay to the destination

UDP port. If so, the relay agent unicasts the packet to the configured server IP

addresses. Otherwise, the relay agent verifies that there is a global

Protocol

UDP Port Number

IEN-116 Name Service

42

DNS

53

NetBIOS Name Server

137

NetBIOS Datagram Server

138

TACACS Server

49

Time Service

37

DHCP

67

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

69

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