follow-up: filtering explorers to a specific host

From: Brian Hescock (bhescock@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Nov 29 2001 - 17:18:07 GMT-3


   
Follow-up to my previous questions about filtering explorers to a
specific host:

- "dlsw icanreach mac" and "dlsw mac-addr" commands will not prevent an
explorer from being sent for the specified mac address. The only
advantage is we reduce traffic on the wan because we only send an
explorer to the peer in question, not to all peers. I confirmed this
with our IBM team.
- there is no way to force the dlsw reachability cache to mark an entry
as "found" (instead of "unconfirmed")
- sna has static mappings and we will always know the destination mac to
a host. We can then use that dmac in an access-expression and filter
explorers from being sent to that specific mac, as in:
access-expression in (lsap(200) & dmac(700))

Brian



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