Broadcast Tasks

You can use two broadcast-related IP commands to perform broadcast-related tasks.

ip broadcast-address

• Use to broadcast to all addresses in the host portion of an IP address.
• You specify an IP address to set the broadcast address.
• Example

  host1(config-if)#ip broadcast-address 255.255.255.255

• Use the no version to restore the default IP broadcast address.
• See ip broadcast-address

ip directed-broadcast

• Use to enable translation of directed broadcasts to physical broadcasts.
• Example

  host1(config-if)#ip directed-broadcast

• Use the no version to disable the function.
• See ip directed-broadcast

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