Re: weird inverse-arp problem

From: John Matus (jmatus@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Oct 17 2004 - 21:19:47 GMT-3


yeah.......it's IE lab 2 and i'm also on racktimerentals........what a
coinkydink

Regards,

John D. Matus
MCSE, CCNP
Office: 818-782-2061
Cell: 818-430-8372
jmatus@pacbell.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Wong" <johnwk@unimelb.edu.au>
To: "ccie2be" <ccie2be@nyc.rr.com>
Cc: "John Matus" <jmatus@pacbell.net>; "lab" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: weird inverse-arp problem

> Guys,
>
> I've encountered the same problem too. Configured 4 routers for
> frame-relay on the physical intf & left mapping to default of dynamic.
> "sh frame map" doesn't show the dynamic discovered maps. Was like this
> for a few minutes then decided to just reboot the routers. Sure enough,
> the mappings appear _after_ the routers were rebooted. I didn't spend
> much time troubleshooting this coz I was on a rental. This was on one
> of the IE Lab (forgot which one now but it was lab 2-4) and using
> RackTimeRentals router (think they were 3640s on 12.2T(something)).
> Its probably one of those Cisco IOS "features"....
>
>
> ccie2be wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> I'm almost 100% sure that when you config the fram interfae-dlci #
>> command
>> on an interface with an ip address, you disable inverse arp for ip.
>>
>> Why I'm not 100% sure is because the rule is that when a fram map command
>> is
>> used that disables inverse arp for that protocol and dlci. In your case,
>> you're not using a fram map command. you're using the fram inteface-dlci
>> command, but I suspect the same rule applies.
>>
>> HTH, Tim
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Matus" <jmatus@pacbell.net>
>> To: "ccie2be" <ccie2be@nyc.rr.com>; "lab" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 5:13 PM
>> Subject: Re: weird inverse-arp problem
>>
>>
>>
>>>interface Serial0/0
>>> ip address 132.1.0.4 255.255.255.0
>>> encapsulation frame-relay
>>> ip ospf network point-to-multipoint
>>> frame-relay interface-dlci 401
>>> frame-relay interface-dlci 402
>>> frame-relay interface-dlci 403
>>> frame-relay lmi-type cisco
>>>
>>>
>>>that is the config for 4 routers in the frame cloud.......frame
>>
>> inverse-arp
>>
>>>is on by default..........<?>
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>John D. Matus
>>>MCSE, CCNP
>>>Office: 818-782-2061
>>>Cell: 818-430-8372
>>>jmatus@pacbell.net
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "ccie2be" <ccie2be@nyc.rr.com>
>>>To: "John Matus" <jmatus@pacbell.net>; "lab" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>>>Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 2:03 PM
>>>Subject: Re: weird inverse-arp problem
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hey John,
>>>>
>>>>Could you post your config's?
>>>>
>>>>Off-hand, the 1 thing that comes to mind is that if the routers were
>>>>config'd with "no fram inv", then the local router would send out
>>
>> inverse
>>
>>>>arp requests, but the remote routers wouldn't respond.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>From: "John Matus" <jmatus@pacbell.net>
>>>>To: "lab" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>>>>Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 3:32 PM
>>>>Subject: weird inverse-arp problem
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>i was setting up a frame network w/ inverse-arp <lab scenario> and had
>>>>
>>>>enabled
>>>>
>>>>>frame-relay encapsulation on the natural interfaces and waited to see
>>
>> the
>>
>>>>>dynamic mappings come to life, but nothing. so after 10 minutes i
>>>>>decided
>>>>
>>>>to
>>>>
>>>>>use the 'frame interface dlci' command on the interfaces and viola, the
>>>>>mapping instantly came up.....
>>>>>from my understanding this is not supposed to be necessary to form
>>>>>dynamic
>>>>>pvc's........or am i wrong???
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>John D. Matus
>>>>>MCSE, CCNP
>>>>>Office: 818-782-2061
>>>>>Cell: 818-430-8372
>>>>>jmatus@pacbell.net
>>>>>
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