Manage UDP Forwarding

About this task

You manage UDP forwarding by defining the destination addresses for the UDP protocol.

Procedure

  1. In the navigation pane, expand Configuration > IP.
  2. Select UDP Forwarding.
  3. Select the Forwardings tab.
  4. Select Insert.
  5. In the Insert Forwardings dialog box, select a destination UDP port from the defined protocols in the DestPort box.
  6. Enter a destination IP address in the DestAddr box.

    The destination address can be any IP server address for the protocol application or the IP address of an interface on the router.

  7. Select Insert. The information is added to the Forwarding tab.

Forwardings Field Descriptions

Use the data in the following table to use the Forwardings tab.

Name

Description

DestPort

Specifies the port number defined for UDP, depending upon the protocol type.

DestAddr

Specifies the destination address can be any IP server address for the protocol application or the IP address of an interface on the router:

  • If the address is that of a server, the packet is sent as a unicast packet to this address.

  • If the address is that of an interface on the router, the frame is rebroadcast.

Id

Specifies an integer that identifies this entry internally.

NumFwdPackets

Specifies the total number of UDP broadcast packets forwarded using this policy.

NumDropPacketsTtlExpired

Specifies the total number of UDP broadcast packets dropped because the time-to-live value (TTL) expired.

NumDropPacketsDestUnreach

Specifies the total number of UDP broadcast packets dropped because the specified destination address was unreachable.