On 28/05/2010, at 12:01 AM, Peter Rathlev wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 18:45 +0530, jaikar gupta wrote: >> Thanks peter but i want to Know MAC-addresses. > > Then you use BRIDGE-MIB for switches, and RFC1213-MIB for routers. :-) > > Disregarding certain special cases a router will only know MAC addresses > in combination with IP addresses. It does not (usually) bridge just L2 > traffic.
could not have said it better myself. :) indeed, thats exactly it. a router doesn't _know_ what is out there L2 wise until someone talks to it. cheers, lincoln. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
