| This window specifies the parameters that determine how the
filer routes network traffic. To reload the current settings from the filer, click the
Reload button. To view the changes that you made, click the View Changes button. After you
make a change, click the Save Changes button to save the changes to the filer. The
following list describes the fields in this window:
- Routed Enable
- If
routed is enabled, the filer runs a simple routing daemon to manage the
selection of the default gateway for IP network routing. This daemon "listens"
for Routing Information Protocol (RIP) packets being exchanged between routers on the
network to determine which routers are alive. From the routers that are alive, the daemon
selects the one with the highest preference to use as the filer's default router.
- However, the filer doesn't rely on the routed daemon to construct the routing
table. The function of the filer's routed daemon is to check the status
of the default router.
- Default Gateway
- Specifies a default gateway.
- MTU Discovery
- Enables the filer to discover and use the largest packet size that the filer can send to
another host without fragmenting a packet. This means that the filer doesn't have to limit
itself to sending many small packets, which takes more time and resources than sending
fewer large packets. By default, the MTU is 4,352 on an FDDI interface, 1,500 on an
Ethernet interface, and 9,188 on an ATM interface.
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