Specifying the IP addresses of servers
You need to maintain a server list on the MFF device. The list contains the IP addresses of servers in the network to ensure communication between the servers and clients.
You can specify a server's IP address in either manual or automatic MFF mode. The server IP address can be any of the following types:
IP address of a DHCP server.
IP address of a server providing some other service.
Real IP address of a VRRP standby group.
After you specify a server's IP address and then an ARP request from the server is received, the MFF device searches the IP-to-MAC address entries it has stored. Then the MFF device replies with the corresponding MAC address to the server. As a result, packets from a host to a server are forwarded by the gateway. However, packets from a server to a host are not forwarded by the gateway.
To specify the IP addresses of servers:
Step | Command | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
1. Enter system view. | system-view | N/A |
2. Enter VLAN view. | vlan vlan-id | N/A |
3. Specify the IP addresses of servers. | mac-forced-forwarding server server-ip&<1-10> | No server IP address is specified by default. |