IP Addresses...................................................................................................................................................................425
Implementation Information....................................................................................................................................425
Conguration Tasks for IP Addresses..........................................................................................................................425
Assigning IP Addresses to an Interface.......................................................................................................................425
Conguring Static Routes.............................................................................................................................................426
Congure Static Routes for the Management Interface.......................................................................................... 427
IPv4 Path MTU Discovery Overview.......................................................................................................................... 428
Packet handling during MTU mismatch................................................................................................................428
Using the Congured Source IP Address in ICMP Messages..................................................................................428
Conguring the ICMP Source Interface............................................................................................................... 428
Conguring the Duration to Establish a TCP Connection........................................................................................ 429
Enabling Directed Broadcast........................................................................................................................................ 429
Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................................................429
Enabling Dynamic Resolution of Host Names............................................................................................................430
Specifying the Local System Domain and a List of Domains................................................................................... 430
Conguring DNS with Traceroute................................................................................................................................ 431
ARP.................................................................................................................................................................................. 431
Conguration Tasks for ARP........................................................................................................................................ 432
Conguring Static ARP Entries....................................................................................................................................432
Enabling Proxy ARP.......................................................................................................................................................432
Clearing ARP Cache...................................................................................................................................................... 433
ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................................433
Enabling ARP Learning via Gratuitous ARP................................................................................................................433
ARP Learning via ARP Request................................................................................................................................... 433
Conguring ARP Retries...............................................................................................................................................434
ICMP............................................................................................................................................................................... 435
Conguration Tasks for ICMP...................................................................................................................................... 435
Enabling ICMP Unreachable Messages...................................................................................................................... 435
UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................................435
Congure UDP Helper.............................................................................................................................................435
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 436
Enabling UDP Helper.....................................................................................................................................................436
Congurations Using UDP Helper............................................................................................................................... 436
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses.................................................................................................................436
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses.........................................................................................................437
UDP Helper with Congured Broadcast Addresses.................................................................................................. 437
UDP Helper with No Congured Broadcast Addresses............................................................................................438
Troubleshooting UDP Helper........................................................................................................................................ 438
21 IPv6 Routing............................................................................................................................................ 439
Protocol Overview.........................................................................................................................................................439
Extended Address Space........................................................................................................................................440
Stateless Autoconguration................................................................................................................................... 440
IPv6 Headers............................................................................................................................................................440
Longest Prex Match (LPM) Table and IPv6 /65 – /128 support.................................................................... 441
IPv6 Header Fields...................................................................................................................................................442
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