[c-nsp] bridge FIB-Type in CatOS mls entry

[Tim Stevenson]

At 09:17 PM 4/1/2006, Edwin Lok exclaimed:
>Hi,
>
>Could someone explain what's the meaning of 'bridge' FIB-type found 
>in the CatOS
>mls entry?  So far from the Cisco documentation, the possible values 
>of FIB-type
>are 'receive', 'connected', 'resolved', 'drop', 'wildcard', 
>'default'.  But no
>mention of 'bridge'.
>
>CatOS ver: 7.6(12) with PFC2 and MSFC2
>
>Switch> (enable) sh mls entry cef ip x.x.x.0/18
>Mod FIB-Type  Destination-IP  Destination-Mask NextHop-IP      Weight
>--- --------- --------------- ---------------- --------------- ------
>   15 bridge    x.x.x.0   255.255.192.0
>
>The observation is that the traffic to x.x.x.0/18 are passed to the MSFC2 for
>routing instead of being L3-switched by the PFC2

Yes, bridge means the frame is bridged to the MSFC "as-is" - what the 
s/w does with it at that point depends on many factors.

>Is this normal?

What is the configuration of the interface where this prefix is reached?

Tim


>Thanks
>
>Rgds
>Edwin
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Tim Stevenson, tstevens at cisco.com
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