3com 2500 User Guide

Administering UDP Helper 10-17

You can set the maximum hop count, that is, the maximum number of 
times that packets will be forwarded within the router. The range is 
0 through 16 hops.

The default hop count setting is 4. 

To set the hop count limit:

1 From the top level of the Administration Console, enter:

2 Enter the BOOTP relay hop count limit.

You can set the maximum time limit for routing a packet. If you use 0 as 
the value, the router does not process the value in the seconds field. If 
you use a nonzero value, the router uses that value along with the hop 
count value to determine whether to forward a UDP packet. 

To set the BOOTP relay threshold:

1 From the top level of the Administration Console, enter:

2 Enter the BOOTP relay threshold.

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system
ethernet
fddi
atm
bridge

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ip
ipx
appletalk
snmp
analyzer
script
logout

interface
route
arp
atmArpServer
multicast

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udpHelper
routing
icmpRouterDiscovery
ospf
rip
ping
statistics

display
define
remove
hopCountLimit

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threshold
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