Actually, the IP addresses matter very much.
It doesn't matter if you have 2 devices on the same LAN/VLAN, if their IP
addresses are not in the same IP subnet, they will need a router to talk to
each other. For example, if you have a station with IP address 10.1.1.1 and
another station with IP address 192.168.1.1, those 2 devices would need a
router to talk to each other.
When an IP device needs to reach another IP device, it makes a determination
based on its IP address and its subnet mask as to whether or not the other
device is on the same subnet it is on. If it is, it will issue an arp
request. If it is not, it will send the packets to its DG.
If you have contiguous subnet ranges, you could play some games with the
masks, but then all you are doing is putting your devices on the same subnet
for an IP address/subnet mask perspective, which doesn't change the fact
that a device will only issue an arp for a destination that is on its own
subnet.
The only exception to this is if you define the DG for a device as its own
IP. In this case, the machine will issue an arp request for all
destinations. If the router has proxy-arp turned on, it will respond with
its MAC address. If the destination being arped for is on the same physical
LAN/VLAN, it will see the arp request for its MAC, but will ignore the
request since it will recognize that the requesting station is on a
different IP subnet. (I've done this in the lab, and this is what happens)
It would be possible to hard-code mappings in each devices arp table and
install static routes for each others subnet and get them to talk to one
another without an intervening router, but this is beyond the scope of the
original question.
The bottom line is that under normal operating circumstances you need a
router for 2 IP devices that are not in the same IP subnet to talk to one
another, regardless if they are physically on the same LAN/VLAN.
-Kent
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Karen E Young
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 6:57 AM
To: jeongwoo park; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
No, you don't need a router. A node is determined to be a member of a VLAN
by their MAC address. Layer 2 rather than Layer 3 remember? The router is
only needed to deal with packets destined for anything outside the VLAN. The
IP addresses don't matter.
Karen E Young
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On 7/20/2000 at 2:53 PM jeongwoo park wrote:
:HI all
:I have a question.
:Cisco recommends that there be one-to-one relationship
:between ip subnets and Vlans.
:When the number of devices on a Vlan exceeds the
:number of host ip addresses per configured subnet,
:more than one subnet can exit on a Vlan.
:Having said that, my question;
:There are two subnets in a Vlan. Do we need a router
:to interconnect these two subnets?
:I know that we need a router to interconnect two
:different Vlans.
:
:Thanks.
:
:jeongwoo
:
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