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Command Reference for AT-IX5-28GPX High Availability, High Power Video Surveillance PoE Switch
C613-50057-01 REV A
AlliedWare Plus™ Operating System - Version 5.4.5-0.x
IP A
DDRESSING
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IP
DIRECTED
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BROADCAST
ip directed-broadcast
Overview
Use this command to enable flooding of directed broadcast packets into a directly
connected subnet. If this command is configured on a VLAN interface, then
directed broadcasts received on other VLAN interfaces, destined for the subnet on
this VLAN, will be flooded to the subnet broadcast address of this VLAN.
Use the
no
variant of this command to disable
ip directed-broadcast
. When this
feature is disabled using the
no
variant of this command, directed broadcasts are
not forwarded.
Syntax
ip directed-broadcast
no ip directed-broadcast
Default
The
ip directed-broadcast
command is disabled by default.
Mode
Interface Configuration for a VLAN interface or a local loopback interface.
Usage
IP directed-broadcast is enabled and disabled per VLAN interface. When enabled a
directed broadcast packet is forwarded to an enabled VLAN interface if received on
another subnet.
An IP directed broadcast is an IP packet whose destination address is a broadcast
address for some IP subnet, but originates from a node that is not itself part of that
destination subnet. When a directed broadcast packet reaches a device that is
directly connected to its destination subnet, that packet is flooded as a broadcast
on the destination subnet.
The
ip directed-broadcast c
ommand controls the flooding of directed
broadcasts when they reach target subnets. The command affects the final
transmission of the directed broadcast on its destination subnet. It does not affect
the transit unicast routing of IP directed broadcasts. If directed broadcast is
enabled for an interface, incoming directed broadcast IP packets intended for the
subnet assigned to interface will be flooded as broadcasts on that subnet.
If the
no ip directed-broadcast
command is configured for an interface, directed
broadcasts destined for the subnet where the interface is attached will be dropped
instead of broadcast.
Examples
To enable
ip directed-broadcast
, to flood broadcast packets out via the
vlan2
interface, enter the following commands:
awplus#
configure terminal
awplus(config)#
interface vlan2
awplus(config-if)#
ip directed-broadcast
To disable
ip directed-broadcast,
disabling the flooding of broadcast packets via
vlan2
, enter the following commands:
awplus#
configure terminal
awplus(config)#
interface vlan2
awplus(config-if)#
no ip directed-broadcast