IP Routing Features

Overview of IP Routing

Parameter

Description

Default

See page

 

 

 

 

ICMP Router

An IP protocol that a router can use to advertise the IP addresses of its

Disabled

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Discovery

router interfaces to directly attached hosts. You can enable or disable

 

 

Protocol (IRDP)

the protocol at the Global CLI Config level.

 

 

 

You also can enable or disable IRDP and configure the following

 

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protocol parameters on an individual VLAN interface basis at the VLAN

 

 

Interface CLI Config level.

 

 

 

• Forwarding method (broadcast or multicast)

 

 

 

Hold time

 

 

 

Maximum advertisement interval

 

 

 

Minimum advertisement interval

 

 

 

Router preference level

 

 

 

 

 

 

Static route

An IP route you place in the IP route table.

No entries

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Default

The router uses the default network route if the IP route table does not

None

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network route

contain a route to the destination. For the Switch 5300XL Series devices,

configured

 

 

enter an explicit default route (0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 or 0.0.0.0/0) as a static route

 

 

 

in the IP route table.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IP Interface Parameters for Routing Switches

Table 7-2lists the interface-level IP parameters for routing switches.

Table 7-2. IP Interface Parameters – Routing Switches

Parameter

Description

Default

See page

 

 

 

 

IP address

A Layer 3 network interface address; separate IP

None configured

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addresses on individual VLAN interfaces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ICMP Router

Locally overrides the global IRDP settings. See table 7­

Disabled

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Discovery

1 on page 7-6for global IRDP information.

 

 

Protocol (IRDP)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IP helper address

The IP address of a UDP application server (such as a

None configured

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BootP or DHCP server) or a directed broadcast

 

 

 

address. IP helper addresses allow the routing switch

 

 

 

to forward requests for certain UDP applications from

 

 

 

a client on one sub-net to a server on another sub-net.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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