RE: Disabling Frame Relay ARP Question

From: Sayeed Kachroo (sayeedk@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Aug 06 2005 - 02:10:55 GMT-3


Hi Brian

Just out of curiousity what is the effect of (no arp frame-relay).

Thanks

SK

>From: "Brian Dennis" <bdennis@internetworkexpert.com>
>Reply-To: "Brian Dennis" <bdennis@internetworkexpert.com>
>To: "Michael Yang" <yangm241@yahoo.com>, <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Subject: RE: Disabling Frame Relay ARP Question
>Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 00:19:10 -0400
>
>Michael,
> The "no arp frame-relay" command does not stop the router from
>sending inverse-ARP requests or replying to inverse-ARP requests. Any
>book or practice lab that says that it does is incorrect.
>
> The command doesn't have any effect on inverse-ARP whatsoever.
>If you think about it, there isn't support for ARP in Frame Relay to
>begin with so why would you ever need to disable it? Frame Relay
>support inverse-ARP and not ARP.
>
>Inverse Address Resolution Protocol
>http://www.internetworkexpert.com/rfc/rfc1293.txt
>
>HTH,
>
>Brian Dennis, CCIE #2210 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security)
>bdennis@internetworkexpert.com
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>Michael Yang
>Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 2:22 PM
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: Disabling Frame Relay ARP Question
>
>Im working on a lab where Im told to not to use inverse arp. The
>provided final configs have both no frame inverse-arp and no arp
>frame-relay under the interface configuration.
>
>
>
>Do I need both commands? It seems like either one would work if applied
>to all frame relay interfaces.
>
>
>
>
>
>no frame inverse-arp disables the router from responding to inverse
>arp requests.
>
>
>
>no arp frame-relay disables the router from sending out inverse arp
>requests.
>
>
>
>Also, can anyone give me a real world example of where you would use one
>command over the other one?
>
>
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