From: Ravi Singh (way2ccie@googlemail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 20 2009 - 08:20:35 ARST
Just to add to what Joe said, if you have a rack containing the catalyst
switches and you would like to test it in a lab you can do it by choosing
IP & IPv6 as the two different protocols, so there is no need for you to
know DECNET or Appletalk, yet you can understand how Fallback Bridging
works.
Ravi
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Raghav Bhargava <raghavbhargava12@gmail.com
> wrote:
> OK..
>
> thanks
> raghav
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:03 PM, <joe_astorino@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Let me rephrase what I said in my most recent post. Suppose ports 1-5
> AND
> > ports 6-10 are running the SAME non-IP protocol and they want to talk but
> > are in different VLANs. The switch can not route between the 2 VLANs if
> it
> > is not IP. Thus, you bridge them. What I said before about appletalk
> > communicating with DECNET I don't think made any sense :)
> >
> > - Joe
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "joe astorino" <joe_astorino@comcast.net>
> > To: "Raghav Bhargava" <raghavbhargava12@gmail.com>
> > Cc: "Cisco certification" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:44:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
> Eastern
> > Subject: Re: Fallback Bridging
> >
> > Raghav,
> >
> > The way I understand it is this -- VLANs in general, and thus inter-vlan
> > routing on a switch were designed around the IP protocol. Fallback
> bridging
> > basically allows you to bridge non-ip protocols between VLANs. Since it
> is
> > not IP it cannot be routed normally like an IP packet between vlans, so
> it
> > can be bridged. I hope that helps
> >
> > - Joe
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Raghav Bhargava" <raghavbhargava12@gmail.com>
> > To: "Cisco certification" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:27:03 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
> Eastern
> > Subject: Fallback Bridging
> >
> > Hi Experts,
> >
> > I was reading Fallback Bridging but somehow could not understand it.
> > Can someone please explain in simple terms.
> >
> > Appreciate all the help..
> >
> > --
> > Warm Regards
> > Raghav
> >
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