User Manual

Routing
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M6100 Web Management User Guide
• Statistics on page 225
• IP Interface Configuration on page 229
• Secondary IP on page 232
IP Configuration
Use this menu to configure routing parameters for the switch as opposed to an interface.
To display the IP Configuration page, click Routing
 IP  Advanced  IP Configuration.
1. Use Routing Mode to select enable or disable. You must enable routing for the switch
before you can route through any of the interfaces. The default value is disable.
2. Use ICMP Echo Replies to select enable or disable. If it is enable, then only the router can
send ECHO replies. By default ICMP Echo Replies are sent for echo requests.
3. Use ICMP Redirects to select enable or disable. If it is enabled globally and on interface
level then only the router can send ICMP Redirects.
4. Use ICMP Rate Limit Interval to control the ICMP error packets by specifying the number of
ICMP error packets that are allowed per burst interval. By Default Rate limit is 100
packets/sec, i.e., burst interval is 1000 msec.
To disable ICMP Ratelimiting set this field to
'0'.Valid Rate Interval must be in the range 0 to 2147483647.
5. Use ICMP Rate Limit Burst Size to control the ICMP error packets by specifying the
number of ICMP error packets that are allowed per burst interval. By Default burst size is
100 packets. When burst interval is 0 then configuring this field is not a valid operation. V
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Burst Size must be in the range 1 to 200.
6. Use Select to configure Global Default Gateway to edit the Global Default Gateway field.
7. Use Global Default Gateway to set the global default gateway to the manually configured
value.
A default gateway configured with this command is more preferred than a default
gateway learned from a DHCP server. Only one default gateway can be configured. If you
invoke this command multiple times, each command replaces the previous value.