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Direct Broadcast tab

A directed broadcast is a frame sent to the subnet broadcast address on a remote IP subnet. Forwarding directed broadcast traffic can be enabled or disabled on an IP-interface basis. By disabling or suppressing directed broadcast on an interface, all frames sent to the subnet broadcast address for a local router interface will be dropped. Disabling this function protects hosts from possible denial of service (DOS) attacks such as "smurfing."

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