The IP Over NBMA (ION) Archive

[gardo@VNET.IBM.COM]

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> 7. NHRP over Legacy BMA Networks
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>   There would appear to be no significant impediment to running NHRP
>   over legacy broadcast subnetworks.  There may be issues around
>   running NHRP across multiple subnetworks. Running NHRP on broadcast
>   media has some interesting possibilities; especially when setting up
>   a cut-through for inter-ELAN inter-LIS/LAG traffic when one or both
>   end stations are legacy attached.

This information could be carried in an extension.
Therefore, another way of doing the "cut-through for inter-ELAN" would
be to have the NHS obtain enough information to allow the device
sending the NHRP Resolution Request to setup a LANE Data Direct VCC to
the destination LEC.  The ATM address and LAN parameters associated
with the destination LEC could be put into the NHRP Resolution Reply.

This information could be passed in a non-compulsory extension,
without changing the address family in the NHRP fixed header.

Is there any interest in something like this?

-- Russell