Network Router User Manual

14 Brocade ICX 6650 Layer 3 Routing Configuration Guide
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Basic IP parameters and defaults – Layer 3 Switches
Static RARP
entries
An IP address you place in the RARP table for RARP
requests from hosts.
NOTE: You must enter the RARP entries manually.
The Layer 3 Switch does not have a
mechanism for learning or dynamically
generating RARP entries.
No entries page 62
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 clients for network booting.
Four page 67
Domain name
for Domain
Name Server
(DNS) resolver
A domain name (example: brocade.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 page 25
DNS default
gateway
addresses
A list of gateways attached to the router through
which clients attached to the router can reach DNSs.
None configured page 25
IP load sharing A Brocade feature that enables the router to balance
traffic to a specific destination across multiple
equal-cost paths.
IP load sharing uses a hashing algorithm based on
the source IP address, destination IP address,
protocol field in the IP header, TCP, and UDP
information.
NOTE: Load sharing is sometimes called Equal Cost
Multi Path (ECMP).
Enabled page 55
Maximum IP
load sharing
paths
The maximum number of equal-cost paths across
which the Layer 3 Switch is allowed to distribute
traffic.
Four page 58
Origination of
default routes
You can enable a router to originate default routes
for the following route exchange protocols, on an
individual protocol basis:
• RIP
• OSPF
• BGP4
Disabled page 144
page 178
page 291
Default network
route
The router uses the default network route if the IP
route table 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).
None configured page 54
TABLE 2 IP global parameters – Layer 3 Switches (Continued)
Parameter Description Default For more
information