From: Church, Chuck (cchurch@wamnetgov.com)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 20:03:52 GMT-3
The 3550 doesn't have any WAN interfaces, so you must have a normal router there, right? Put that router's ethernet interface in a VLAN along with the IPX clients. Route IPX normally over the WAN, and let the 3550 and the router route IP between VLANs and to/from the WAN. This assumes both edge devices can route IPX, which they'd have to if you were going to tunnel it. Of course, if there's a bunch of routers involved, routing IPX might be tough.
Chuck Church
CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE
Wam!Net Government Services
13665 Dulles Technology Dr. Ste 250
Herndon, VA 20171
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Williams [mailto:ccie2be@swbell.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 5:11 PM
> To: Church, Chuck
> Cc: CCIELab@Groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: Silly 3550EMI question
>
>
> Sorry about the confusion. No.... Imagine a small offsite (probably
> 768Kbps frame or something) where the "old" PCs were running Win95 and
> using both IP and IPX (IPX for connection to the Novell servers, print
> servers, etc). We've moved over to Active Directory, and virtually
> everything is IP, but there are still some lingering IPX clients,
> printers, etc..... So essentially, we can't separate the IPX traffic
> from the IP traffic as the clients and routers interface are
> in the same
> broadcast domain. Most of the PCs are now WinXP and use IP only, and
> virtually all of the printers have been given an IP address and have
> print queues via AD, but there are those lingering that are
> screwing up
> the whole works.
>
> Any comments on the tunneling idea?
>
> Someone else suggested fallback bridging, so I went and read up on it
> some on Cisco's website, but I don't know if I can utilize this. Any
> input on that is welcome as well.
>
> Mike W.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Church, Chuck [mailto:cchurch@wamnetgov.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:49 PM
> To: Mike Williams
> Cc: CCIELab@Groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: Silly 3550EMI question
>
>
> 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
> 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 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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