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Configurations Using UDP Helper
When you enable UDP helper and the destination IP address of an incoming packet is a broadcast address, Dell EMC Networking
OS suppresses the destination address of the packet.
The following sections describe various configurations that employ UDP helper to direct broadcasts.
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses
UDP Helper with Configured Broadcast Addresses
UDP Helper with No Configured Broadcast Addresses
UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses
When the destination IP address of an incoming packet is the IP broadcast address, Dell EMC Networking OS rewrites the
address to match the configured broadcast address.
In the following illustration:
1. Packet 1 is dropped at ingress if you did not configure 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 configured, the system changes the destination address to the configured broadcast
1.1.255.255 and routes the packet to VLANs 100 and 101. If you do not configure 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:
1. It is flooded on VLAN 101 without changing the destination address because the forwarding process is Layer 2.
2. If you enabled UDP helper, the system changes the destination IP address to the configured broadcast address 1.1.255.255
and forwards the packet to VLAN 100.
3. Packet 2 is also forwarded to the ingress interface with an unchanged destination address because it does not have
broadcast address configured.
Figure 44. UDP Helper with Broadcast-All Addresses
UDP Helper with Subnet Broadcast Addresses
When the destination IP address of an incoming packet matches the subnet broadcast address of any interface, the system
changes the address to the configured broadcast address and sends it to matching interface.
In the following illustration, Packet 1 has the destination IP address 1.1.1.255, which matches the subnet broadcast address of
VLAN 101. If you configured UDP helper and the packet matches the specified UDP port, the system changes the address to the
configured IP broadcast address and floods the packet on VLAN 101.
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