Enabling IRDP on an individual VLAN interface

To enable IRDP on an individual VLAN interface and configure IRDP parameters, enter commands such as the following:

switch(config)# vlan 1
switch(vlan-1)# ip irdp maxadvertinterval 400

This example shows how to enable IRDP on a specific interface (VLAN 1) and change the maximum advertisement interval for Router Advertisement messages to 400 seconds.

Syntax:


[no] ip irdp [broadcast | multicast] [holdtime < seconds >] [maxadvertinterval < seconds >] [minadvertinterval < seconds >] [preference < number >]
[broadcast | multicast]
Specifies the packet type the routing switch uses to send the Router Advertisement:
broadcast

The routing switch sends Router Advertisements as IP broadcasts.

multicast

The routing switch sends Router Advertisements as multicast packets addressed to IP multicast group 224.0.0.1. This is the default.

holdtime <seconds>

Specifies how long a host that receives a Router Advertisement from the routing switch should consider the advertisement to be valid. When a host receives a new Router Advertisement message from the routing switch, the host resets the hold time for the routing switch to the hold time specified in the new advertisement. If the hold time of an advertisement expires, the host discards the advertisement, concluding that the router interface that sent the advertisement is no longer available. The value must be greater than the value of the maxadvertinterval parameter and cannot be greater than 9000.The default is three times the value of the maxadvertinterval parameter.

maxadvertinterval

Specifies the maximum amount of time the routing switch waits between sending Router Advertisements. You can specify a value from 1 to the current value of the holdtime parameter.The default is 600 seconds.

minadvertinterval

Specifies the minimum amount of time the routing switch can wait between sending Router Advertisements. The default is three-fourths (0.75) the value of the maxadvertinterval parameter.If you change the maxadvertinterval parameter, the software automatically adjusts the minadvertinterval parameter to be three-fourths the new value of the maxadvertinterval parameter. If you want to override the automatically configured value, you can specify an interval from 1 to the current value of the maxadvertinterval parameter.

preference <number>

Specifies the IRDP preference level of this routing switch. If a host receives Router Advertisements from multiple routers, the host selects the router interface that sent the message with the highest preference as the host's default gateway.The valid range is -4294967296 to 4294967295.The default is 0.