I was afraid you'd ask that. No, I don't think it would be correct to
describe it as a routing protocol. The IP addressing is flat, and these
are switches. Its function is to allow each switch to be addressed using
IP in order to pass management traffic among them. The only IP device
outside the "cloud" they can communicate with using IP is the management
station, as I recall. Each switch can have only one IP address, similar
to the Catalyst products' SC0 interface IP address assignment.
Yes, it is definitely proprietary. As with many proprietary features,
Cisco is not allowing us to discover very much about it. It isn't even
clear that we need to know more than they are telling us. Once you assign
IP addresses to the switches and configure the management station with a
"gateway" into the IP relay "cloud," there's no other configuration to do.
There are others on this list who have had more exposure to these
products. Maybe they can elaborate.
Pamela
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Charles Peter wrote:
> Can i say this is a kind of routing protocol running on WAN switch ?
> Is it a proprietary protocol on Cisco IPX/BPX ?
>
> >From: Pamela Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: Pamela Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: IP Relay in IPX/IGX
> >Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:22:15 -0500 (EST)
> >
> >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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