RE: DLSW Bit Swapping

From: Scott Livingston (scottl@sprinthosting.net)
Date: Tue Dec 31 2002 - 16:29:41 GMT-3


Thank you EVERYONE for helping me out on this!

scott

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Joe
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 6:44 PM
To: 'Scott Livingston'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: DLSW Bit Swapping

Since DLSw+ does the conversion at the ingress/egress of non-token ring
media, I'd concur with your statement, unless something happended in the
middle, but I can't think of anything like that myself. As I am writing
this I am wondering if border peers might come into play here.

What if you had the following:

Ethernet------R1------Serial------R2------Serial------R3------Ethernet
             DLSw------------------------------------DLSw

DLSw between R1 and R3 would not require any special handling to do MAC
filtering and such.

But what if we had the following:

Ethernet------R1------Serial------R2------Serial------R3------Ethernet
             DLSw----------------DLSw
                                 DLSw----------------DLSw

Here we have a DLSw session between peers in group 1, R1 and R2, and
another session between peers in group 2, R2 and R3, where R2 acts as
the border peer for groups 1 and 2. What happens to the rule in this
case? Router 2 has no idea that the frames come from Ethernet, it just
sees the MAC addresses. If we needed to filter in R2, I am inclined to
think we'd need to look at the bitswapped MAC addresses.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Scott Livingston
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 5:58 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: DLSW Bit Swapping

My understanding is that when using DLSw in a pure Ethernet (No TR)
environment you do NOT need to do any bit-swapping. Would that be a
consensus on this forum?
 
Thank You,
Scott
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