I asked the same question from pre-sales, and the answer was 'that's what the customer has requested', so the whole job has been trying to provide exactly what they requested.
But... tonight I telnet'd to the office and spent an hour or so changing back to hybrid code and banking on the fact that I can pursuade the customer that the 1 IP - 1 IPX solution is the only way. Broad shoulder decision may be my downfall when I get on site, but too late now. The native IOS made a real mess of things. This was my first taste of Native IOS on the 6000's. I had thought that it would be more flexible than IOS for things such as multi port switching. You live and learn. Gaz ""Andrew Cook"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > The only way I could see this being done with Hybrid code would be to make 9 > VLANs: 8 with 1 IP subnet and 1 IPX network, and 1 with 12 IP subnets and 1 > IPX network. This doesn't take into account security/political issues > arising from combining the IP networks into one broadcast domain. > Incidentally, why can't you break the large IPX network up into multiple > networks and have all of the VLANs follow the same 1 IP-1 IPX model? > > Regards, > > Andrew > > ""Gaz"" wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Hi all, > > > > I made a right pigs ear of a config today. Managed to get it working > > eventually, but I have a feeling I made a mountain out of a mole hill. > > > > The requirement was a 6500 with MSFC, with around 20 connections to > switches > > such as 3548's, each having a subnet with a 24 bit mask, (so 20 ports, 20 > > subnets). 8 of these ports had an IPX network each. The other 12 ports > were > > on the same IPX network (12 ports, 12 subnets, one IPX network). > > > > The initial idea was to use Integrated Routing and Bridging. This led me > to > > creating BVI's which were routing IP, but bridging IPX. When I tried to > add > > VLAN's to the bridge-group the response was something like 'Cannot create > > bridge group with VLAN without including a WAN interface' Apologies for > the > > vagueness, but in terms of the day, that seems about 4 years ago. > > > > No matter what I tried with BVI's, I couldn't get the thing to bridge and > > route IPX. > > > > Someone, who I have now shot :-) suggested trying it with Integrated IOS, > so > > I printed off the 26 pages of instructions to upgrade to Integrated IOS > and > > tried that (eventually - I tried answering the phone constantly throughout > > the upgrade and lost it a few times - Thank God for PCMCIA cards). > > > > With the Integrated IOS, I created BVI's wit IPX addresses, and put the > > relevant ethernet interfaces into the bridge group, and it worked straight > > away. > > > > > > I can't help get the feeling there's an easier way. > > > > Any clues? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > Gaz Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=28553&t=28488 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
