From: MD Schnabel (macks.majordad@xxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2001 - 18:41:15 GMT-3
It is only telling the dlsw peers that this address can be reached, so they
dont have to send broadcasts looking for this mac address. It wont tell the
hosts behind r1 because explorer packets would have found it for them on the
local segment.
hope that helps
mark
kenairs wrote:
> Hi group ,
>
> R1 ---------------R2
> Please help to confirm the below.
>
> 1. On R1, i configured " dlsw icanreach mac-address xxxx.xxxx.xxxx "
> R1 is actually telling R2 that it can reach the macaddress specified.
> This is done during the dlsw peering process.
>
> 2. What if i do a " show dlsw reachablilty on R1 ?
> Wat actually does it do ?
> I am thinking that it will tell those Hosts behind R1 that it can reach
> the mac address in the "show dlsw reachability " output .
>
> Am i correct ?
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