Dell 9.7(0.0) manual Tunnel keepalive, Ip-address ipv6, Unlimited

allows the multipoint receive-only tunnel to decapsulate tunnel packets addressed to any IPv4 or IPv6 (depending on the tunnel mode) address configured on the switch that is operationally Up.

tunnel keepalive

Configure the tunnel keepalive target, interval and attempts.

Syntaxtunnel keepalive {ip-address ipv6-address}[interval {seconds}] [attempts {count unlimited}]

To disable the tunnel keepalive probes use the no tunnel keepalive command.

Parameters
ip-address ipv6	Enter the IPv4 or IPv6 address of the peer to which
address
	the keepalive probes will be sent.
interval	Enter the keyword interval then the interval time, in
seconds
	seconds, after which the restart process to keepalive probe
	packets.
	The range is from 5 to 255. The default is 5.
count	(OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword count to count packets
	processed by the filter.
	The range is from 3 to 10. The default is 3.
unlimited	Enter the keyword unlimited to specify the unlimited
	number of keepalive probe packets.

Defaults

Command Modes

Command History

Usage Information

Tunnel keepalive is disabled.

INTERFACE TUNNEL

Version	Description
9.7(0.0)	Introduced on the S6000-ON.
9.4(0.0)	Introduced on the S4810, S4820T, S6000 and Z9000.

Enabling tunnel keepalive causes ICMP echo packets to be sent to the keepalive target. The ICMP echo will be sourced from the tunnel interface logical IPv4 or IPv6 address and will be tunnel encapsulated. The response will be accepted whether it returns tunnel encapsulated or not.

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