From: Bogdan Sass (bogdan.sass@catc.ro)
Date: Thu Oct 09 2008 - 02:22:40 ART
Fake Name wrote:
> Lan 1 |--R1 ----R2-----R3----R4---R5---| lan 2
>
> If a computer on lan 1 wants to talk to Lan 2 and R1 has a route to Lan 2 it
> via R2 then R2 has a route to Lan 2 via R3 and R3 has a route to Lan 2 Via
> R4 and R4 has a route to lan 2 vlan R5 then when the traffic returns what is
> every router but R3 has a return route to lan 1 but R3 will the traffic be
> black holed? If it will be if R3 was a multi layer switch would it go
> through because of the multilayer switch cache?
>
What cache are you referring to? Anyway, at Layer3, it really
doesn't matter if the device is a MLS or a router - as long as it does
not have a route for a specific destination, traffic for that
destination will be dropped.
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