Users Guide

Conguring a Broadcast Address
To congure a broadcast address, use the following command.
• Congure a broadcast address on an interface.
ip udp-broadcast-address
Examples of Conguring and Viewing a Broadcast Address
Dell(conf-if-vl-100)#ip udp-broadcast-address 1.1.255.255
Dell(conf-if-vl-100)#show config
!
interface Vlan 100
ip address 1.1.0.1/24
ip udp-broadcast-address 1.1.255.255
untagged TenGigabitEthernet 1/2/1
no shutdown
To view the congured broadcast address for an interface, use show interfaces command.
Dell#show interfaces vlan 100
Vlan 100 is up, line protocol is down
Address is 00:01:e8:0d:b9:7a, Current address is 00:01:e8:0d:b9:7a
Interface index is 1107787876
Internet address is 1.1.0.1/24
IP UDP-Broadcast address is 1.1.255.255
MTU 1554 bytes, IP MTU 1500 bytes
LineSpeed auto
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:07:44
Queueing strategy: fifo
Input Statistics:
0 packets, 0 bytes
Time since last interface status change: 00:07:44
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:
IPv4 Routing
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