Enabling forwarding of directed broadcasts

A directed broadcast is an IP broadcast to all devices within a single directly attached network or subnet. A net-directed broadcast goes to all devices on a given network. A subnet-directed broadcast goes to all devices within a given subnet.

NOTE:

A less common type, the all-subnets broadcast, goes to all directly attached subnets. Forwarding for this broadcast type also is supported, but most networks use IP multicasting instead of all-subnet broadcasting.

Forwarding for all types of IP directed broadcasts is disabled by default. You can enable forwarding for all types if needed. You cannot enable forwarding for specific broadcast types.