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Dell PowerEdge FN I/O Module Configuration Guide 9.10(0.0)

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Configuring a Switch for NLB

To enable a switch for unicast NLB mode of functioning, perform the following steps:

Enter the ip vlan-flooding command to specify that all Layer 3 unicast routed data traffic, going through a VLAN member port, needs to be flooded across all the member ports of that VLAN. There might be some ARP table entries that are resolved through ARP packets, which had the Ethernet MAC SA different from the MAC information inside the ARP packet. This unicast data traffic flooding occurs only for those packets that use these ARP entries. CONFIGURATION mode ip vlan-flooding

Multicast NLB Mode

To enable a switch for multicast NLB mode of functioning, perform the following steps:

  1. In the multicast mode of NLB, add a static ARP entry by entering the arp ip-address multicast-mac-address command in Global configuration mode to associate an IP address with a multicast MAC address in the switch. This setting causes the multicast MAC address to be mapped to the cluster IP address for the NLB mode of operation of the switch. INTERFACE mode arp ip-address multicast-mac-address interface
  2. Associate specific MAC or hardware addresses to VLANs. CONFIGURATION mode mac-address-table static multicast-mac-address vlan vlan-id output-range interface

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