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 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Find a job, post your resume. > http://careers.yahoo.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=25790&t=25584 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]