Re: ARP and NHRP question

[James Watt <[e-mail]>]

James Watt writes:
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|Mark Laubach writes:
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||> I would agree with what you seem to be implying. Native NHRP clients should
||> be permitted to exist and should be allowed to coexist with ATMARP clients
||> in a LIS.....
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||Andy and I were already planning to issue a joint statement in the ipatm
||and rolc meetings regarding this very topic.  We'll be mostly replaying
||what has been discussed prior at the Danvers and the Stockholm meetings. 
||It will be good to see some contributions and such on the topic. 
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|My observation would be that I would prefer the complexity to be in the
|server, not all of the clients.
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|I would suggest that if the client speaks NHRP, it should always do so.  If
|the NHRP server doesn't provide an answer (doesn't have one, doesn't want
|to, etc.) then the client should ATMARP.
|
|This would suggest that most NHRP servers should also be ATMARP servers and
|thus be able to answer all questions with one request, not two.
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Sigh... What I really wanted to say was _all_ NHRP servers must also be
ATMARP servers.  Most is not enough.
 
Regards ?
-james
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