Cabletron Systems SmartSwitch manual Configuring IP Helper, Configuring Direct Broadcast

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Chapter 6: IP Routing Configuration Guide

Configuring IP Helper

You can configure the SSR to forward UDP broadcast packets received on a given interface to all other interfaces or to a specified IP address. You can specify a UDP port number for which UDP broadcast packets with that destination port number will be forwarded. By default, if no UDP port number is specified, the SSR will forward UDP broadcast packets for the following six services:

BOOTP/DHCP (port 67 and 68)

DNS (port 37)

NetBIOS Name Server (port 137)

NetBIOS Datagram Server (port 138)

TACACS Server (port 49)

Time Service (port 37)

To configure a destination to which UDP packets will be forwarded, enter the following command in Configure mode:

Specify local subnet interface, destination “helper” IP address, and UDP port number to forward.

ip helper-address interface <interface-name><helper-address>all-interfaces [<udp-port#>]

Configuring Direct Broadcast

You can configure the SSR to forward all directed broadcast traffic from the local subnet to a specified IP address or all associated IP addresses. This is a more efficient method than defining only one local interface and remote IP address destination at a time with the ip- helper command when you are forwarding traffic from more than one interface in the local subnet to a remote destination IP address.

To forward all directed broadcast traffic to a specified IP address, enter the following command in Configure mode:

Forward directed broadcast traffic.

ip enable directed-broadcast interface <interface name>all

Configuring Denial of Service (DOS)

By default, the SSR installs flows in the hardware so that packets sent as directed broadcasts are dropped in hardware, if directed broadcast is not enabled on the interface where the packet is received. You can disable this feature, causing directed broadcast

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