Re: DLSW trick or not

From: Joe Chang (changjoe@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 22:13:38 GMT-3


Good idea. "show dlsw reach local" may be another way of finding the
non-canonical values.

----- Original Message -----
From: "cannonr" <cannonr@attbi.com>
To: "Niksa Tomulic" <ccie@otokrab.net>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: DLSW trick or not

> If it is a real mac address on your DLSW bridged ethernet interface, your
> remote peer will learn dynamically and DLSW will translate it for you.
You
> can then cut and past the converted mac from "show dlsw reach" on the
remote
> peer. I have been meaning to try hardcoding a mac address on the cat3550
to
> see if that works. If not, it only takes a few minutes to convert anyway.
>
> Royce
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Niksa Tomulic" <ccie@otokrab.net>
> To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 2:29 PM
> Subject: DLSW trick or not
>
>
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Is maybe there any "trick" how to use
> >
> > bridge bitswap-layer3-addresses
> >
> > global configuration command with combination of something else, to get
> > automatically conversion of the given MAC address from canonical to
> > non-canonical?
> >
> > Concrete example: I've got given MAC address 00-02-A5-CB-58-86 in
> > canonical format, I want to tell the other side it's the only one
> > reachable locally, therefore I would use ICANREACH command, but this
> > needs to be bit-swapped.
> > So I'll use mentioned command somehow (if possible) and get the address
> > bit-swapped by our loved IOS
> > Manual conversion IS EASY, but under stress circumstances and time
> > pressure it is also easy to do a mistake. Please DO NOT explain how to
> > convert addresses or when is it needed, there is enough of it in the
> > archives.
> >
> > If it is possible - how
> > if not, one NO would be enough as an answer.
> > Any idea?
> >
> > niksa



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