From: Fred Ingham (fningham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 15:54:45 GMT-3
Agree with Atif. Another way to look at this is that you use
the address in the DLSW local reachability cache in the icanreach
statement. If you have hosts you will see these addresses are all in
non-canonical format.
Hope this adds to previous info.
Fred.
Atif Awan wrote:
>
> Ok i am sorry if i was still not clear. Here is my understanding. Since DLSw
> sends all addresses in non-canonical format and if you want to statically
> configure reachability between peers having ethernet stations attached in
> addition to token ring then for the ethernet MACs you will need to convert
> them into non-canonical before listing them in the icanreach mac-address
> statements. I hope this makes it clear now.
>
> Regards
> Atif Awan
>
> >From: Shaun Nicholson <Shaun.Nicholson@kp.org>
> >Reply-To: Shaun Nicholson <Shaun.Nicholson@kp.org>
> >To: atifawan <atifawan@hotmail.com>
> >CC: ccielab <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> >Subject: Re: DLSW ICANREACH can and non can addressing
> >Date: 08 Jan 2001 07:50:15 -0800
> >
> >Yes I know that, and I know how to do that without any problems but thats
> >not my question.
> >My question is how do I do an ICANREACH on that router running DLSW and
> >SR/TLB.
> >You said that DLSW would handle it for me I want to know how it would know
> >how to handle it, if it does indeed handle it, as I dont think it knows how
> >too so in that case how do I set up my ICANREACH do I need can or non can
> >addressing.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Shaun
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >atifawan@hotmail.com on 01/08/2001 10:44:00 AM
> >To: Shaun Nicholson
> >cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com@Internet
> >Subject: Re: DLSW ICANREACH can and non can addressing
> >
> >
> >
> >For both ethernet and token ring on a single router you will need to run
> >both SR/TLB as well as DLSw.
> >
> >
> > >From: Shaun Nicholson <Shaun.Nicholson@kp.org>
> > >To: atifawan <atifawan@hotmail.com>
> > >CC: ccielab <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> > >Subject: Re: DLSW ICANREACH can and non can addressing
> > >Date: 08 Jan 2001 07:09:12 -0800
> > >
> > >Are you sure about that?
> > >Think about the following.......
> > >What if I have a router with both a TR and an Eth interface on it and
> >both
> > >are running DLSW how does it know where my ICANREACH comes from or how do
> >I
> > >know what to use address wise to enter it correctly as an ICANREACH ?
> > >
> > >
> > >Shaun
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >atifawan@hotmail.com on 01/08/2001 09:53:00 AM
> > >To: Shaun Nicholson, ccielab@groupstudy.com@Internet
> > >cc:
> > >Subject: Re: DLSW ICANREACH can and non can addressing
> > >
> > >
> > >If you have DLSw configured it automatically takes care of the address
> > >translation.
> > >
> > >Regards
> > >Atif
> > >
> > > >From: Shaun Nicholson <Shaun.Nicholson@kp.org>
> > > >Reply-To: Shaun Nicholson <Shaun.Nicholson@kp.org>
> > > >To: ccielab <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> > > >Subject: DLSW ICANREACH can and non can addressing
> > > >Date: 08 Jan 2001 06:27:48 -0800
> > > >
> > > >OK
> > > >I've got the when to use can to non can off to a T.
> > > >You use it on ethernet when advertizing to tokenring yeah.
> > > >
> > > >But lets say you want to advertize a station thats on ethernet mac
> > >address
> > > >1111.1111.1111 and you have a few dlsw peers of both ethernet and token
> > > >ring.
> > > >
> > > >Would you do this
> > > >dlsw icanreach 1111.1111.1111
> > > >dlsw icanreach 8888.8888.8888
> > > >
> > > >so that both TR and Eth can reach the host?
> > > >
> > > >Thanks
> > > >Shaun
> > > >
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