From: MADMAN (dave@interprise.com)
Date: Tue Jun 17 2003 - 11:21:51 GMT-3
Erick B. wrote:
> One more reason I can think of is, if there is a
> non-cisco router on the FR cloud then you need to do
> IETF encapsulation as well and if you autosense LMI it
> probably doesn't use IETF encapsulation.
LMI is local to the switch and has nothing to do with the frame encap.
Dave
>
> Erick
>
> --- "Dana J. Dawson" <djdawso@qwest.com> wrote:
>
>>Some things are good ideas for administrative and
>>maintenance issues rather than
>>purely technical ones. For example, suppose the
>>router won't always be a Cisco
>>running that version of code, perhaps because you
>>have an old spare for
>>emergency reasons? As another example, here in our
>>shop we never use Frame
>>Relay Inverse ARP if we don't have to, since it
>>makes troubleshooting IP
>>connectivity issues harder. It may not be quite as
>>convenient, but in the long
>>run those few extra commands are worth it. It's
>>sort of like putting comments
>>in your code. They don't make the code work any
>>better, but a year and a half
>>later when someone else is looking at the config,
>>you want it to be as easy as
>>possible for them to figure out what's going on.
>>
>>This is just my $.02 - I'm sure there are compelling
>>arguments on the flip side
>>of this, too.
>>
>>HTH
>>
>>Dana
>>
>>--
>>
>>Dana J. Dawson djdawso@qwest.com
>>Senior Staff Engineer CCIE #1937
>>Qwest Communications
>>600 Stinson Blvd., Suite 1S
>>Minneapolis MN 55413-2620
>>
>>"Hard is where the money is."
>>
>>Joe Deleonardo wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Assuming:
>>>- you're on a DTE
>>>- you're on 11.2 or later
>>>- you don't have any specification requirements
>>>
>>>Is there any reason why you might want to specify
>>
>>your LMI type statically?
>>
>>>I asking because I can't find a reason, however
>>
>>I'm looking at a
>>
>>>configuration where they do specify it statically,
>>
>>but there doesn't seem to
>>
>>>be a reason why... at least not that I'm aware of.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Joe
>>
>>
>>
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