Handling Of Management Route Configuration; Handling Of Switch-Initiated Traffic - Dell S6100 Configuration Manual

• For management applications, route lookup is preferentially done in the management EIS routing table for all traffic. management port is
the preferred egress port. For example, if SSH is a management application, an SSH session to a front-panel port IP on the peer box is
initiated via management port only, if the management port is UP and management route is available.
• If SSH request is received on the management port destined to the management port IP address, the response to the request is sent
out of the management port by performing a route lookup in the EIS routing table
• If the SSH request is received on the front-end port destined for the front-end IP address, the response traffic is sent by doing a route
lookup in the default routing table only.
• If the management port is down or route lookup fails in the management EIS routing table, packets are dropped.
• For all non-management applications, traffic exits out of either front-end data port or management port based on route lookup in
default routing table.
• Ping and traceroute are always non-management applications and route lookup for these applications is done in the default routing table
only.
• For ping and traceroute utilities that are initiated from the switch, if reachability needs to be tested through routes in the management
EIS routing table, you must configure ICMP as a management application.
• If ping and traceroute are destined to the management port IP address, the response traffic for these packets is sent by doing route
lookup in the EIS routing table.
When the feature is disabled using the no management egress-interface-selection command, the following operations are
performed:
• All management application configuration is removed.
• All routes installed in the management EIS routing table are removed.

Handling of Management Route Configuration

When the EIS feature is enabled, the following processing occurs:
• All existing management routes (connected, static and default) are duplicated and added to the management EIS routing table.
• Any management static route newly added using the management route CLI is installed to both the management EIS routing table
and default routing table.
• As per existing behavior, for routes in the default routing table, conflicting front-end port routes if configured has higher precedence
over management routes. So there can be scenarios where the same management route is present in the EIS routing table but not in
the default routing table.
• Routes in the EIS routing table are displayed using the show ip management-eis-route command.
• In the netstat output, the prefix "mgmt" is added to routes in the EIS table so that the user can distinguish between routes in the EIS
Routing table and default routing table.
• If the management port IP address is removed, the corresponding connected route is removed from both the EIS routing table and
default routing table.
• If a management route is deleted, then the route is removed from both the EIS routing table and default routing table.

Handling of Switch-Initiated Traffic

When the control processor (CP) initiates a control packet, the following processing occurs:
• TCP/UDP port number is extracted from the sockaddr structure in the in_selectsrc call which is called as part of the connect system
call or in the ip_output function. If the destination TCP/UDP port number belongs to a configured management application, then
sin_port of destination sockaddr structure is set to Management EIS ID 2 so that route lookup can be done in the management EIS
routing table.
366 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)