RE: Silly 3550EMI question

From: Church, Chuck (cchurch@wamnetgov.com)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 18:49:02 GMT-3


Would you have IPX on multiple VLANs then at the remote site? That would be bad. It'd have to cross the WAN twice to go between VLANs.

Chuck Church
CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE
Wam!Net Government Services
13665 Dulles Technology Dr. Ste 250
Herndon, VA 20171
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cchurch@wamnetgov.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Williams [mailto:ccie2be@swbell.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 4:36 PM
> To: Church, Chuck
> Cc: CCIELab@Groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: Silly 3550EMI question
>
>
> LOL......... Well, problem is these little offsites are all
> in one VLAN
> (many of them have just a hub to connects to the router). What we
> thought of doing is leaving the 2500 there, and upon installing the
> 3550, setup a tunnel and send the IPX traffic across the tunnel (there
> would be a 6500 on the other end of the tunnel). Doesn't the
> 6500 have
> the process switch all traffic to/from the tunnel interface? Just
> thinking about the reality of using that as a workaround.....
>
> Thanks!
> Mike W.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Church, Chuck [mailto:cchurch@wamnetgov.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 10:14 AM
> To: Mike Williams; CCIELab@Groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: Silly 3550EMI question
>
>
> Doesn't look like it. Didn't find anything about IPX other than ACL
> support in the 12.1.14 config guide. Can't do IRB or CRB either on
> those switches, so looks like you're stuck. Maybe create a
> single VLAN
> at those sites for all the IPX devices, and when they no longer need
> IPX, move them out of that VLAN to a routed IP-only VLAN.
>
> Chuck Church
> CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE
> Wam!Net Government Services
> 13665 Dulles Technology Dr. Ste 250
> Herndon, VA 20171
> Office: 703-480-2569
> Cell: 703-819-3495
> cchurch@wamnetgov.com
> PGP key:
> http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=cchurch%40
wamnetgov.
com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Williams [mailto:ccie2be@swbell.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 10:32 AM
> To: CCIELab@Groupstudy.com
> Subject: Silly 3550EMI question
>
>
> Does the 3550 EMI support routing IPX? We bought a couple for some
> offsites and didn't realize until after we received them that these
> offsites still use IPX..... D'OH!!! Worse case, just keep a 2500 at
> those sites or something...... LOL fun fun
>
> TIA,
> Mike W.
>
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