As I recall, it is a method for the switches to relay IP traffic amongst
themselves, within the "cloud" only, for management purposes such as SNMP
and telnet sessions. Each switch gets an IP address so you can telnet to
it and so it can be managed by the NMS (used to be called StrataView,
don't know what they call it now--my info is almost 3 years old).
It is a good idea to assign the IP addresses to the switches from among
one of the private IP networks such as 172.16.0.0, but not one that you're
using for any other purpose within your organization. The switches will
be isolated as far as IP goes, but you don't want the management station
to get confused about which addresses are where.
HTH
Pamela
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Charles Peter wrote:
> Can anybody tell me more about the IP relay in IPX/IGX switch ?
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