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TABLE 43
IP global parameters (Continued)
Parameter Description
ICMP Router An IP protocol a router can use to advertise the IP addresses of its
Discovery Protocol router interfaces to directly attached hosts. You can enable or
(IRDP) disable the protocol, and change the following protocol
parameters:
•
Forwarding method (broadcast or multicast)
•
Hold time
•
Maximum advertisement interval
•
Minimum advertisement interval
•
Router preference level
NOTE: You also can enable or disable IRDP and configure the
Maximum BootP The maximum number of hops away a BootP server can be
relay hops located from a router and still be used by the router's clients for
network booting.
Maximum Frame You can set a maximum frame size of IP packets that are
Size forwarded on all ports of a PPCR.
Domain name for A domain name (example: company.router.com) you can use in
Domain Name place of an IP address for certain operations such as IP pings,
Server (DNS) trace routes, and Telnet management connections to the router.
resolver
DNS default gateway A list of gateways attached to the router through which clients
addresses attached to the router can reach DNSs.
IP load sharing A Brocade feature that enables the router to balance traffic to a
specific destination across multiple equal-cost paths.
Load sharing is based on a combination of destination MAC
address, source MAC address, destination IP address, source IP
address, and IP protocol.
NOTE: Load sharing is sometimes called Equal Cost Multi Path
Maximum IP load The maximum number of equal-cost paths across which the
sharing paths device is allowed to distribute traffic.
Origination of default You can enable a router to originate default routes for the
routes following route exchange protocols, on an individual protocol
basis:
•
RIP
•
OSPF
•
BGP4
Default network The router uses the default network route if the IP route table
route does not contain a route to the destination and also does not
contain an explicit default route (0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 or 0.0.0.0/0).
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parameters on an individual interface basis. Refer to
Table 44 on page 160.
(ECMP).
Basic IP parameters and defaults
Default
Disabled
Four
None configured
None configured
Enabled
Four
Disabled
None configured
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