Re: ARP Frame relay

From: Cisco Key (ciscokey@googlemail.com)
Date: Tue May 15 2007 - 15:27:50 ART


Hi Brian

Thanks for the reply, but I have to agree that i also saw that on the
pratical studies book, so I am confused!

On 15/05/07, Brian Dennis <bdennis@internetworkexpert.com> wrote:
>
> The "no arp frame-relay" command does not stop the router from sending
> inverse-ARP requests or replying to inverse-ARP requests. The command
> does
> not 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 supports inverse-ARP but not ARP.
>
> Inverse Address Resolution Protocol
> http://www.internetworkexpert.com/rfc/rfc1293.txt
>
> HTH,
>
> Brian Dennis, CCIE4 #2210 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/SP)
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> On 5/15/07 5:29 AM, "Cisco Key" <ciscokey@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Group
> >
> > I do apologise if this question has been asked a million times before,
> but I
> > have been searching the archives and have still not found any definitive
> > answer on the use/uselessness of ARP Frame-relay,
> >
> > I have found the following:
> >
> > ARP Frame-relay no arp frame-relay" also to circumvent sending out ip
> > address to DLCI binding information no arp frame-relay that this will
> kill
> > auto install Router(config-if)no frame-relay inverse-arp  Disables the
> > sending of Inverse ARP requests. Use this command in conjunction with
> no
> > arp frame-relay to prevent the dynamic mapping of
> PVCs. Router(config-if)no
> > arp frame-relay Disables ARP responses. Use this in conjunction with
> the
> > no frame-relay inverse-arp command.
> >
> > Is this command really needed, I know this use to be used with ATM, but
> I do
> > not really see the use of this command if no frame-relay inverse-arp
> does
> > the job
> >
> > Please comment
> >
> > Thanks
> > Paul
> >
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