Alcatel-Lucent 6850-48 Reference Guide

RDP Commands

OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide

page 35-5

Configures the destination address to which RDP will send router advertisement packets from the speci-
fied interface. Advertisement packets are sent at configurable intervals by routers to announce their IP 
addresses on the network.

ip router-discovery interface name advertisement-address {all-systems-multicast | broadcast}

The IP interface name that was defined at the time the IP interface was 
configured. 

Specifies 224.0.0.1 as the destination address for RDP advertisement 
packets.

Specifies 255.255.255.255 as the destination address for RDP advertise-
ment packets. Use this address if IP multicast links are not available.

OmniSwitch 6400, 6850, 6855, 9000, 9000E

• The RDP interface advertisement address is not active unless RDP is enabled on the switch and the 

specified interface is also enabled.

• RFC 1256 recommends the use of all-system-multicast on all links with “listening hosts” that support 

IP multicast.

-> ip router-discovery interface Marketing advertisement-address all-systems-multi-

cast

-> ip router-discovery interface Accounting advertisement-address broadcast

Release 6.1; command was introduced.