Never mind.. looks like foundry does not react very well to port
channel/trunk auto negotiation from the catalyst... Funny it seems to
have similar problems with a net gear...
Nimesh.
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Nimesh vakharia wrote:
>
> I've a foundry(Bi8K) and Cat65K(MSFC2) connected back to back on a "non
> trunk(CSCO)/untagged port(FDRY)" but for some reason can't seem to have
> packets go across that link... I mirrored/spaned the ports on the foundry
> side and here's what I get when I try to push traffic through that VLAN..
>
>
> Frame, Time Stamp, DA, SA,
>
> 7 00:00:00.000224620 0180C2000000 0030A3389D5F
>
> Type/Length Data Frame Length Status
> 00 26 42 42 03 00 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 B0 4A 8C F8 04 00 00 00 00 80 00
> 00 B0 4A 8C F8 04 80 48 00 00 14 00 02 00 0F 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 D1
> BB 7D AF 64 Good Packet
>
>
> The Mac Frame types is 0x0026
>
> A quick search on google did not reveal anything... any ideas?
>
> Nimesh.
>
> On Fri, 25 May 2001, David Bergum wrote:
>
> > >>>>> On Fri, 25 May 2001 15:02:00 -0400, Chris Davis <chris.davis@computerjobs.com> said:
> >
> > Chris> It sounded to me as if it's "evil" when used for connected networks because
> > Chris> it inserts the connected network as "external" which results in incorrect
> > Chris> costs and advertisements and, I suppose, general confusion when reading the
> > Chris> ospf database.
> >
> > Chris> Don't know how to get the connected routes into OSPF if OSPF fails to pick
> > Chris> them up, though.. Nobody has been clear on how to do that!
> >
> > Just configure them as passive interfaces in OSPF; then you don't send
> > hello's out there and attmpt to find adjacencies. They will be
> > redistributed in the router lsa. If you redistribute them as externals,
> > then each interface is announced as a separate type 5 lsa, which is flooded
> > over the whole network. Much more efficient to carry all your
> > infrastructure as internals.
> >
> > If you are smart, and allocate all your p2p interfaces withing the same
> > block, then you can use area range ospf configs on the abr to summarize all
> > the /30's into one summary network lsa into area 0, saving even more db
> > space.
> >
> > If you have a small network, though, it probably doesn't make that much
> > difference.
> >
> > Dave.
> >
>
>
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