Command
IP Directed-Broadcast
Use
Enables fowarding of directed broadcasts. When this is turned on for an interface, the interface will respond to broadcast messages that are sent to its subnet.
Syntax
Router(config-if)#ip directed-broadcast
Example
In this example, IP directed-broadcasts is enabled on in fa0/0 on R2. A broadcast is sent and the response from both interfaces is received. Next, we issue an IP directed-broadcast to the subnet of fa0/0. Since ip directed-broadcast is enabled on this inteface, it responds.
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R2#conf t |
| R2(config-if)#do ping 255.255.255.255 repeat 1Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 1, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 255.255.255.255, timeout is 2 seconds: Reply to request 0 from 10.1.1.1, 28 ms |
| R2(config-if)#do ping 10.1.1.255 repeat 1Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 1, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 10.1.1.255, timeout is 2 seconds: Reply to request 0 from 10.1.1.1, 24 ms |
