Re: DLSW Switch redundancy ?

From: kevin gannon (kevin@gannons.net)
Date: Sat Oct 01 2005 - 11:10:01 GMT-3


Ignore the ramblings below, forget that the MAT is using token
ring address format !!!!!!!!!.

Regards
Kevin

On 10/1/05, kevin gannon <kevin@gannons.net> wrote:
> I have no real world SNA experience so the below maybe seem
> daft. I have setup up the following
>
> R1
> ------------------
> interface FastEthernet0/0
> no ip address
> duplex auto
> speed auto
> dlsw transparent redundancy-enable 9999.9999.9999
> dlsw transparent map local-mac 4000.0000.0099 remote-mac 0009.b7d1.6e20
>
> R5
> -------------------
> interface FastEthernet0/0
> no ip address
> duplex auto
> speed auto
> dlsw transparent redundancy-enable 9999.9999.9999 master-priority 1
> dlsw transparent map local-mac 4000.0000.0002 remote-mac 0090.ed8b.7604
>
> Both R1 and R5 are attached to the same switch in the same VLAN. On this
> VLAN I have also setup a DSPU listener and on another router I have setup
> a DSPU host. The DSPU traffic is travelling in DLSW and hits R1 in this case
> as this is the router which won the circuit. 0090.ed8b.7604 is the host by the
> way.
>
> I can see the MAC address translation taking place on R1 :
>
> R1#
> *Mar 1 03:38:42.779: DLSW-ER:action_c(): origin mapped from (wan)
> 0090.ed8b.7604 ---> 0200.0000.0099
>
> So all is well.
>
> So in the real world if the mainframe recieves the SNA from the MAT'd
> address in my
> case 0200.0000.0099 the MAT it should respond to the 0200.0000.0099 ?
>
> If this is the case then in my configs MAT seems to work in only one direction.
> In fact if R1 receieves an explorer for the MAC 0200.0000.0099 it doesnt
> respond and traffic is dropped.Testing using DSPU commands again a
> real SNA host may behave differently ?
>
> Maybe I should be thinking about this like static IP NAT.
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Kevin



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