understand what to do with it
anyway.
Hope this helps
Ken Sexton
Data Network Engineering
ICG Communications
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to do with it
> anyway.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Ken Sexton
> Data Network Engineering
> ICG Communications
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> From: Phil Barker
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>>> SNIP
The RIF is just referenced (not changed) in frames
that are specifically routed. In other words, once the
end station has found a route, it just puts it in the
frame and the bridges just read it forwards or
backwards and route accordingly.
Could that be what he's getting at??
>>> END S
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At 08:34 AM 3/6/02, Phil Barker wrote:
>Just been re-reading this paper by David Wolfsener.
>See SNIP below.
>
>In
At 09:52 AM 3/6/02, Sexton, Ken wrote:
>Phil,
>The first bit within the Source Address Field is normally the I/G bit, to
>define if the source address is individual (unicast) or group (multicast)
A source address can't be a group address. Just a nit-picky comment.
>address. In an SRB bridged env
At 08:34 AM 3/6/02, Phil Barker wrote:
>Just been re-reading this paper by David Wolfsener.
>See SNIP below.
>
>In the instance where the RII indicator is a 1 the
>frame will be 'source routed' if the frame is 'source
>routed' then surely this implies that the RIF must be
>manipulated in order to
Thanks Ken,
>>> SNIP2
The first SRB enabled bridge in the path (from
originator to
destination)
will see that this is an explorer packet and add its
route designator
(RD)
information to the RIF.
>>> END SNIP2
Can I therefore conclude that in a 'Source Route
Transparent' Bridge the RIF field
Phil,
The first bit within the Source Address Field is normally the I/G bit, to
define if the source address is individual (unicast) or group (multicast)
address. In an SRB bridged environment, this one bit is used to indicate if
any Routing Information Field (RIF) information is present in the T
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