Users Guide

• The broadcast trac rate should not exceed 200 packets per second when you enable UDP helper.
• You may specify a maximum of 16 UDP ports.
• UDP helper is compatible with IP helper (ip helper-address):
– UDP broadcast trac with port number 67 or 68 are unicast to the dynamic host conguration protocol (DHCP) server per
the
ip helper-address conguration whether or not the UDP port list contains those ports.
– If the UDP port list contains ports 67 or 68, UDP broadcast trac is forwarded on those ports.
Enabling UDP Helper
To enable UDP helper, use the following command.
• Enable UPD helper.
ip udp-helper udp-ports
Example of Enabling UDP Helper and Using the UDP Helper show Command
Dell(conf-if-te-1/1)#ip udp-helper udp-port 1000
Dell(conf-if-te-1/1)#show config
!
interface TenGigabitEthernet 1/1
ip address 2.1.1.1/24
ip udp-helper udp-port 1000
no shutdown
To view the interfaces and ports on which you enabled UDP helper, use the show ip udp-helper command from EXEC
Privilege mode.
Dell#show ip udp-helper
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Port UDP port list
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te 1/1 1000
Congurations Using UDP Helper
When you enable UDP helper and the destination IP address of an incoming packet is a broadcast address, Dell Networking OS
suppresses the destination address of the packet.
The following sections describe various congurations that employ UDP helper to direct broadcasts.
• UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses
• UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses
• UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses
• UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses
When the destination IP address of an incoming packet is the IP broadcast address, Dell Networking OS rewrites the address to
match the congured broadcast address.
In the following illustration:
1. Packet 1 is dropped at ingress if you did not congure UDP helper address.
2. If you enable UDP helper (using the ip udp-helper udp-port command), and the UDP destination port of the packet
matches the UDP port congured, the system changes the destination address to the congured broadcast 1.1.255.255 and
routes the packet to VLANs 100 and 101. If you do not congure an IP broadcast address (using the ip udp-broadcast-
address
command) on VLANs 100 or 101, the packet is forwarded using the original destination IP address 255.255.255.255.
Packet 2, sent from a host on VLAN 101 has a broadcast MAC address and IP address. In this case:
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