Re: Disabling Frame Relay ARP Question

From: Amit Jain (netsteps@rediffmail.com)
Date: Sat Aug 06 2005 - 03:30:33 GMT-3


I am not Brian :-) but I think "no arp frame-relay" will have no effect at
all. As brian told that arp does not work for FR in first place. Only
Inver-arp works, so "no arp frame-relay" will be useless.

Amit
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sayeed Kachroo" <sayeedk@hotmail.com>
To: <bdennis@internetworkexpert.com>; <yangm241@yahoo.com>;
<ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 10:40 AM
Subject: RE: Disabling Frame Relay ARP Question

> 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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