CONFIGURING ADVANCED FEATURES ........................................................................................................

5-13

FAST PORT SPAN ...............................................................................................................................

5-13

FAST UPLINK SPAN ............................................................................................................................

5-15

SINGLE SPANNING TREE ....................................................................................................................

5-17

PVST/PVST+ COMPATIBILITY ............................................................................................................

5-20

ENABLING PVST/PVST+ STATICALLY ................................................................................................

5-21

DISPLAYING PVST INFORMATION ........................................................................................................

5-22

CONFIGURING IP.........................................................................................

6-1

BASIC CONFIGURATION ...............................................................................................................................

6-1

OVERVIEW ..................................................................................................................................................

6-2

IP INTERFACES ....................................................................................................................................

6-2

IP PACKET FLOW THROUGH A ROUTING SWITCH ..................................................................................

6-3

IP ROUTE EXCHANGE PROTOCOLS .......................................................................................................

6-7

IP MULTICAST PROTOCOLS ..................................................................................................................

6-7

IP INTERFACE REDUNDANCY PROTOCOLS .............................................................................................

6-7

NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION .......................................................................................................

6-8

ACCESS CONTROL LISTS AND IP ACCESS POLICIES ..............................................................................

6-8

BASIC IP PARAMETERS AND DEFAULTS – ROUTING SWITCHES .....................................................................

6-9

WHEN PARAMETER CHANGES TAKE EFFECT .........................................................................................

6-9

IP GLOBAL PARAMETERS – ROUTING SWITCHES .................................................................................

6-10

IP INTERFACE PARAMETERS – ROUTING SWITCHES ............................................................................

6-14

BASIC IP PARAMETERS AND DEFAULTS – HP 6208M-SX ..........................................................................

6-16

IP GLOBAL PARAMETERS – HP 6208M-SX ........................................................................................

6-16

INTERFACE IP PARAMETERS – HP 6208M-SX ....................................................................................

6-17

CONFIGURING IP PARAMETERS – ROUTING SWITCHES ..............................................................................

6-18

CONFIGURING IP ADDRESSES ............................................................................................................

6-18

CONFIGURING DOMAIN NAME SERVER (DNS) RESOLVER ....................................................................

6-21

CONFIGURING PACKET PARAMETERS ..................................................................................................

6-23

CHANGING THE ROUTER ID ................................................................................................................

6-25

SPECIFYING A SINGLE SOURCE INTERFACE FOR TELNET, TACACS/TACACS+, OR RADIUS PACKETS ...6­

26

 

CONFIGURING ARP PARAMETERS ......................................................................................................

6-27

CONFIGURING FORWARDING PARAMETERS .........................................................................................

6-32

DISABLING ICMP MESSAGES .............................................................................................................

6-34

DISABLING ICMP REDIRECTS .............................................................................................................

6-36

CONFIGURING STATIC ROUTES ...........................................................................................................

6-36

CONFIGURING A DEFAULT NETWORK ROUTE .......................................................................................

6-46

CONFIGURING IP LOAD SHARING ........................................................................................................

6-48

OPTIMIZING THE IP FORWARDING CACHE ............................................................................................

6-60

CONFIGURING IRDP ...........................................................................................................................

6-62

CONFIGURING RARP .........................................................................................................................

6-64

CONFIGURING UDP BROADCAST AND IP HELPER PARAMETERS ..........................................................

6-67

CONFIGURING BOOTP/DHCP FORWARDING PARAMETERS ..................................................................

6-70

CONFIGURING IP PARAMETERS – HP 6208M-SX ......................................................................................

6-73

CONFIGURING THE MANAGEMENT IP ADDRESS AND SPECIFYING THE DEFAULT GATEWAY ....................

6-73

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