At 11:53 PM 20/01/2004, Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 23:45, Jim Cunning wrote:
There is no requirement on a point-to-point link that both ends be in the same subnet. For that matter, there is no requirement that either the near or far interface have an IP address at all. Anything the local host sends to the near end interface is only going to go to the far end interface--at which point further routing must happen. Cisco has been doing that for years, even on frame relay circuits.
Jim
Yes, circuitless connections. Nortel routers also support that. Never used those much as it made monitoring and trouble shooting of the circuits more difficult. There are several ways to skin a cat and to setup a network. ;) UM, have we hijacked the thread and are we now off topic folks?
We use to use the Mac addresses to chase through these links, it took a little longer typing them in but you ALWAYS knew you were dealing with the link in question. Cisco even has software to direct connect for this (no interface code required). regards scsijon