Router – Dell PowerConnect M6220 User Manual

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Configuring Routing

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The Router Discovery Status page displays the following fields:

Interface — The router interface for which data is displayed.

Advertise Mode — The values are Enable or Disable. Enable denotes that Router Discovery is enabled

on that interface.

Advertise Address — The IP Address used to advertise the router.

Maximum Advertise Interval (secs) — The maximum time (in seconds) allowed between router

advertisements sent from the interface.

Minimum Advertise Interval (secs) — The minimum time (in seconds) allowed between router

advertisements sent from the interface.

Advertise Lifetime (secs) — The value (in seconds) used as the lifetime field in router advertisements

sent from the interface. This is the maximum length of time that the advertised addresses are to be

considered as valid router addresses by hosts.

Preference Level — The preference level of the router as a default router relative to other routers on

the same subnet. Higher numbered addresses are preferred.

Displaying Router Discovery Status using the CLI Command

For information about the CLI command that performs this function, see the following chapter in the

CLI Reference Guide:

• Router Discovery Protocol Commands

Router

The Router menu page contains links to web pages that configure and display route tables. To display

this page, click Routing > Router in the tree view. Following are the web pages accessible from this menu

page:

Route Table
Best Routes Table
Route Entry Configuration
Configured Routes
Route Preferences Configuration

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