Yes, exactly.  What exactly would ARP be doing in an ISDN environment?  The
relevant mapping needed in a dial environment is layer 3 address (let's
ignore BRI bridging for the moment) to ISDN phone number.  This can be
accomplished by either dial-strings or dialer maps (static or dynamic).

""John Neiberger""  wrote in message
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> I may be experiencing a brain cloud at the moment, but why would you
> expect to see an arp entry for the BRI interface?  ARP is used to map an
> IP address to a hardware address on a multiaccess network.  BRI is point
> to point and would not require an ARP entry to be able to communicate.
>
> Could you post the relevant portions of your configs as well as the
> output from the various show commands?
>
> John
>
> >>> "Cisco Kid"  11/7/01 12:04:38 PM >>>
> All,
>
> I have a BRI interface which is showing up/up ,however
> for some reason there is no arp entry for it and when
> i try to ping it I have an encapsulation failure as a
> result of this.
>
> Its wierd because the interface appears to be working
> when i look at it via the sh isdn stat / sh int bri
> commands.
>
> Any ideas ?.
>
> Regards
>
> Jonathan
>
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