Hi all, I made a right pigs ear of a config today. Managed to get it working eventually, but I have a feeling I made a mountain out of a mole hill.
The requirement was a 6500 with MSFC, with around 20 connections to switches such as 3548's, each having a subnet with a 24 bit mask, (so 20 ports, 20 subnets). 8 of these ports had an IPX network each. The other 12 ports were on the same IPX network (12 ports, 12 subnets, one IPX network). The initial idea was to use Integrated Routing and Bridging. This led me to creating BVI's which were routing IP, but bridging IPX. When I tried to add VLAN's to the bridge-group the response was something like 'Cannot create bridge group with VLAN without including a WAN interface' Apologies for the vagueness, but in terms of the day, that seems about 4 years ago. No matter what I tried with BVI's, I couldn't get the thing to bridge and route IPX. Someone, who I have now shot :-) suggested trying it with Integrated IOS, so I printed off the 26 pages of instructions to upgrade to Integrated IOS and tried that (eventually - I tried answering the phone constantly throughout the upgrade and lost it a few times - Thank God for PCMCIA cards). With the Integrated IOS, I created BVI's wit IPX addresses, and put the relevant ethernet interfaces into the bridge group, and it worked straight away. I can't help get the feeling there's an easier way. Any clues? Thanks. Gaz Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=28488&t=28488 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
