On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 05:52:19PM -0400, Franklin Lian wrote:
>
> > Use BVI's.
> >
>
> Hey, this is a very interesting idea. BVI will give you certain
> redundancy between the two interface on a router, however I guess it
> introduces more problem than the benefit. Besides of the IOS code
> support (bugs and IOS feature set), the BVI is a process switching
Yep. Bugs behave just as they're expected to: infest everything that can be
infested. ;^) So you're lucky if it will itch there where you can scratch.
> interface that won't give you good performance and meanwhile, you
Router#sh ip int bvi1
BVI1 is up, line protocol is up
...
IP fast switching is enabled
IP fast switching on the same interface is disabled
IP Flow switching is disabled
IP Fast switching turbo vector
IP multicast fast switching is enabled
IP multicast distributed fast switching is disabled
IP route-cache flags are Fast
...
12.1(2)
> may play with spanning tree to get the primary/secondary interface
> which means a lot of management overhead is waiting for you. I would
Agreed. But it's still much cheaper that buying a second box, and as far as I
uderstood this was _the_ reason for this exercise. ;^)
> rather to buy another box instead of dealing with the bridged network
> and spanning tree.
>
> Flian
SY,
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