From: Peter Van Oene (vantech@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Aug 24 1999 - 01:55:55 GMT-3
All good, except the router will handle MTU mismatches that will
occur
Peter Van Oene
Senior Systems Engineer
UNIS LUMIN Inc.
www.unislumin.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark McSweeny <MarkM@interconnect.co.nz>
To: 'grcitynet' <gr@citynet.net>
Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 6:31 PM
Subject: RE: When would you use SRT?
> Hi,
>
> SRT is used when you have to bridge devices, some of which
> use RIFs and some that don't.
> I wouldn't used it for Token <> Ethernet - use Translational.
>
> Example
>
> A router with two token rings and two ethernets.
> Bridging process checks for RIF, if present use SRB if missing
> use TB
>
> MTUs must be the same
>
> I think thats correct..
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>
> On Tuesday, August 24, 1999 12:33 PM, grcitynet [SMTP:gr@citynet.net]
wrote:
> > I seem to remember doing a lab in CIP class that used SRT. We were able
to
> > talk to ethernet to token ring but to connect to a host on the other
side
> > you would invert the mac address. ie 00e0.acbc.1111 to 8888.3d35.0700.
> >
> > I will try to dig up some of the info and labs if I can.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Vincent Fortunato <vfortunato@erols.com>
> > To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 2:30 PM
> > Subject: RE: When would you use SRT?
> >
> >
> > > Paul:
> > > SRT would be used when you need a router to do either SRB or TB, but
not
> > > between the two. (i.e. will not do the required canonical to
> non-canonical
> > > bit flipping that occurs in translational bridging). I guess you
would
> > use
> > > this when you have multiple but separate bridging processes going on
at
> > the
> > > same time on the same router. However, you would only be able to
bridge
> > an
> > > ethernet interface to another ethernet interface and a token-ring
> > interface
> > > to another token-ring interface. I probably just reiterated your
> question
> > > because I cannot imagine ever actually needing to do this. Also sorry
> if
> > > I'm insulting your intelligence - as the creator of this list and
former
> > > instructor of mine, you're probably looking for a more in-depth
> response.
> > > If I remember correctly, the ACRC student text had a SRT scenario in
it.
> > > Lab in two weeks at RTP (lab virgin here)!
> > >
> > > Vince Fortunato
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
Of
> > Paul
> > > Borghese
> > > Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 3:15 PM
> > > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > > Subject: When would you use SRT?
> > >
> > > Does anyone know in what scenario you would use Source Route
Transparent
> > > bridging? The bit-order problem seems to rule out the use between
token
> > > ring and ethernet.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
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