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Monitoring and Configuring the Forwarding Cache (Layer 3)

2.Use Table 11-1 to complete your fowarding cache configuration:

Table 11-1.Layer 3 Cache Configuration - Tree Configuration

		Tree Configuration
Field...	For the		Allows you to...
	protocol...
Hash Depth	IP Unicast		Configure the hash depth for IP unicast, IP
	IP Multicast		multicast, and IPX datagrams. Choices
			include:
	IPX
			•	Hash-8- An 8-bit memory bucket used
				to store information about the source or
				destination protocol address (or both).
			• Hash -10- A 10-bit memory bucket used
				to store information about the source or
				destination protocol address (or both).
			•	Hash-12- A 12-bit memory bucket used
				to store information about the source or
				destination protocol address (or both).
Hash Mode	IP Unicast		Configure the table hash lookup mode for the
	IP Multicast		IP unicast, IP multicast and IPX forwarding
			table. Choices include:
	IPX
			•	DA-only- Forwarding entries input to
				the forwarding table are limited to using
				protocol destination address only.
			•	SA-DA- Forwarding entries input to the
				forwarding table are limited to using
				destination and source address only.
Aging	IP Unicast		Configure the IP unicast, IP multicast, or IPX
	IP Multicast		forwarding table entry aging status as either
			enabled or disabled.
	IPX
Age Interval	IP Unicast		The IP unicast, IP multicast, or IPX
	IP Multicast		forwarding table entry aging period (in
			seconds). The default value is 120 seconds.
	IPX
Maximum	IP Unicast		The number of active entries in the IP
Entries	IP Multicast		unicast, IP multicast, or IPX forwarding table.
			This is the maximum number of active
	IPX
			entries per fabric port. Additional flows are
			forwarded by the supervisor module. The
			default value is 15000.

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