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Table 8.1: IP Global Parameters (Continued)
Parameter
Description
Default
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ICMP Router
Discovery
Protocol (IRDP)
An IP protocol a router can use to advertise the IP
addresses of its router interfaces to directly attached
hosts. You can enable or disable the protocol, and
change the following protocol parameters:
Disabled
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Forwarding method (broadcast or multicast)
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Hold time
•
Maximum advertisement interval
•
Minimum advertisement interval
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Router preference level
Note: You also can enable or disable IRDP and
configure the parameters on an individual interface
basis. See Table 8.2 on page 8-8.
Maximum
BootP relay
hops
The maximum number of hops away a BootP server
can be located from a router and still be used by the
router’s clients for network booting.
Maximum
Frame Size
You can set a maximum frame size of IP packets that
are forwarded on all ports of a PPCR.
Domain name
for Domain
Name Server
(DNS) resolver
A domain name (example: foundry.router.com) you
can use in place of an IP address for certain
operations such as IP pings, trace routes, and Telnet
management connections to the router.
None configured
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DNS default
gateway
addresses
A list of gateways attached to the router through
which clients attached to the router can reach DNSs.
None configured
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IP load sharing
A Brocade feature that enables the router to balance
traffic to a specific destination across multiple equalcost paths.
Enabled
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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 (ECMP).
Maximum IP
load sharing
paths
The maximum number of equal-cost paths across
which the BigIron RX is allowed to distribute traffic.
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Origination of
default routes
You can enable a router to originate default routes for
the following route exchange protocols, on an
individual protocol basis:
Disabled
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RIP
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OSPF
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BGP4
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