OT: Nortel BLN cross over to Cisco routers [7:32253]

2002-01-16 Thread Bill Pearch
I've been 'blessed' with a loaded BLN. There is a quad sync serial card (5280) and an OSync card, as well as a quad token ring card and a Sonet\SDH card. I'll easily make use of the 4 token ring interfaces, but what I'd really like to do is use the serial interfaces as a FR switch. Does anyone k

Re: OT: Nortel BLN cross over to Cisco routers [7:32253]

2002-01-16 Thread Ben Liang Tan
Hi, you need a BNX software to enable frame relay switching. Ben Liang Tan >From: "Bill Pearch" >Reply-To: "Bill Pearch" >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: OT: Nortel BLN cross over to Cisco routers [7:32253] >Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 22:25:59 -0500 >

Re: OT: Nortel BLN cross over to Cisco routers [7:32253]

2002-01-16 Thread Erick B.
Hey Bill, The BN and ASN's can act as a frame switch with a *special* image, refered to as BNX code. The drawback is, I don't think normal router functions work when using the BNX code. I'm not 100% on this so don't take my word. Also, the BNX code hasn't been upgraded in quite sometime compare