Re: ISIS - weird problem with ethernet switch.

From: David Goldsmith (dgoldsmi@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2001 - 09:54:31 GMT-3


   
Ben,

Should work, how about sending some show and debugs for the adj.

I assume you mean that the adj. won't come up. ISIS pads the adj. packet, I
believe in this version there is an option to turn this off. I'll check on
that.

Dave

bbolles@creekpath.com wrote:

> I am having an odd problem getting ISIS to run successfully between two 2501
> (IOS 12.0(13)) routers connected via an Ethernet segment through a 2912xl
> switch. The odd thing is that other traffic (ping, RIP, OSPF, BGP) has been
> working fine between these two routers via the 2912, and on the same exact
> VLAN. If I connect the two routers together via a X-over ethernet cable,
> ISIS routing updates work and all is well.
>
> As far as I can tell, my cabling is OK because other traffic works fine.
> Just to be sure, I did try other known good cables with no success.
> Likewise, I have forced the ports on the 2912 to 10M/half. I feel I am
> running into some issue with broadcast or multicast packets not being
> forwarded by the 2912xl switch.
>
> Have any of you heard of an issue like this before? I searched the archives
> and the closest thing I came across was an MTU setting issue when using ISIS
> over Token Ring. I verified that my clns mtu setting is 1497 as dictated by
> the physical interface.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Ben Bolles
>



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Thu Jun 13 2002 - 10:29:17 GMT-3