[c-nsp] FWSM Questions

[Paul Stewart]

Hi folks...

This is a "high level" question ... we are moving towards FWSM's in our
6509's in the new year....

I understand Cisco PIX fairly well so the command structure shouldn't be
a major issue for me...

My question centers around passing traffic through the FWSM itself.  I
understand that traffic must go VLAN to VLAN (same as the PIX must go
interface to interface).

In our setup, we have OSPF running across multiple interfaces using
loopback etc.

So, for example:

6509-A

GigE1/1 - 10.10.10.1/30
GigE1/2 - 10.10.0.1/30
Loopback0 - 192.168.254.1/32

6509-B

GigE1/1 - 10.10.10.2/30
Loopback0 - 192.168.254.2/32

GSR12000

GigE5/1 - 10.10.0.2/30
Loopback0 - 192.168.254.3/32

So, on 6509-A I will have VLAN200 setup as 192.168.0.1/24

How do I tell the FSWM module to pass traffic from VLAN200 on the 6509-A
router to the GSR for example?  Do I need to make interface GigE1/1 a
member of a new VLAN so I can pass VLAN to VLAN via the FWSM??

To complicate matters, we will be putting HSRP into the mix during the
migration as well... but I don't believe that will be a big issue after
I get my head around passing the FWSM traffic...;)

Thanks in advance,

Paul