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Hello group
Wonder if anybody has advice on configuring a catalyst we have over here...
["sho ver" is below]

Thanks in advance!

CANNOT make a BVI work.
It has all kinds of VLANs on FEs, and a few GEs.
We added a DS3 ATM ifce, and connected DS3 ATM to our ATM switches.
I want to make it manageable from CLAN [222.1.1.0 address] in the same
manner as I have done other routers in our shop. I manage a bunch of routers
in band ATM on CLAN using BVIs in all the routers, and connected to external
ethernet network.

I got the ds3 up, created PVC, created "bridge group 10 route ip" " int BVI
10," put PVC in bridge group 10. I need bridge encapsulation to use it on
clan.
The config is identical to other routers I have except that I can't seem to
get spanning tree runnng on BVI 10 on this catalyst.
Spanning-tree is default, but it seems to run only on the VLANs ["show
spanning-tree" lists all the VLANs]. When I try to do "bridge 10 protocol
ieee" when I do config - "ieee" is not an option.

When I do "show spanning-tree 10" it says spanning-tree not configured on
bvi 10.
I am not sure the spanning tree is fundamental problem however.

If I am on the catalyst, and I "ping 222.1.1.55," I can PROVE that the ARP
request makes it all the way to the far end 222.1.1.55 and I can PROVE that
the ARP reply makes it all the way back to the catalyst - I have an analyzer
connected to catalyst port. I can even do a debug on the catalyst and see
the stuff. I can do a TCPdump at the 222.1.1.55 and see the ARPs come, ARP
reply go out.

The Catalyst just seems to ignore the ARP reply. It does NOT make it into
the arp cache. Occasionally....... i can actually see the MAC address in
there. If I do a "show bridge 10" I see LOTS of MAC addresses from CLAN,
all saying forwarding. I even see some of the other CLAN IP addresses and
their MAC in the arp cache!?

Here is a "show ip int bvi 10"
NGN2Catalyst-95#sho ip int bvi 10
BVI10 is up, line protocol is up
Internet address is 222.1.1.95/24
Broadcast address is 255.255.255.255
Address determined by non-volatile memory
MTU is 4470 bytes
Helper address is not set
Directed broadcast forwarding is disabled
Outgoing access list is not set
Inbound access list is not set
Proxy ARP is enabled
Local Proxy ARP is disabled
Security level is default
Split horizon is enabled
ICMP redirects are always sent
ICMP unreachables are always sent
ICMP mask replies are never sent
IP fast switching is enabled
IP fast switching on the same interface is disabled
IP Flow switching is disabled
IP Fast switching turbo vector
IP Null turbo vector
IP multicast fast switching is enabled
IP multicast distributed fast switching is disabled
IP route-cache flags are Fast
Router Discovery is disabled
IP output packet accounting is disabled
IP access violation accounting is disabled
TCP/IP header compression is disabled
RTP/IP header compression is disabled
Probe proxy name replies are disabled
Policy routing is disabled
Network address translation is disabled
WCCP Redirect outbound is disabled
WCCP Redirect inbound is disabled
WCCP Redirect exclude is disabled
BGP Policy Mapping is disabled
Sampled Netflow is disabled
IP multicast multilayer switching is disabled

Here is a "show int bvi 10"
NGN2Catalyst-95#sho int bvi 10
BVI10 is up, line protocol is up
Hardware is BVI, address is 0000.0c55.c434 (bia 0000.0000.0000)
Internet address is 222.1.1.95/24
MTU 4470 bytes, BW 44209 Kbit, DLY 5000 usec,
reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last input never, output never, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
Queueing strategy: fifo
Output queue :0/0 (size/max)
5 minute input rate 2000 bits/sec, 3 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
L2 Switched: ucast: 0 pkt, 0 bytes - mcast: 0 pkt, 0 bytes
L3 in Switched: ucast: 0 pkt, 0 bytes - mcast: 0 pkt, 0 bytes mcast
L3 out Switched: ucast: 0 pkt, 0 bytes
3143 packets input, 298105 bytes, 0 no buffer
Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort
36 packets output, 2160 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

Sure looks like the catalyst is seeing the background bridge traffic coming
in...... Not sure what the packets out is, unless it thinks it sent
something out in response to the ping. Can't believe BPDU bridge packets
are going out since it says spanning tree not running.

Here is a "show ip route 222.1.1.0"
NGN2Catalyst-95# sho ip route 222.1.1.0
Routing entry for 222.1.1.0/24
Known via "connected", distance 0, metric 0 (connected, via interface)
Routing Descriptor Blocks:
* directly connected, via BVI10
Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1

I am at the end of my rope. If you can think of anything, I would
appreciate it.
I have reloaded the catalyst several times and shut/no shut everything lots
of times.
Thanks.
John





Here is a "sho ver" for basic info:




NGN2Catalyst-95#sho ver
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) c6sup2_rp Software (c6sup2_rp-PSV-M), Version 12.1(13)E14, EARLY
DEPLO
MENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Tue 30-Mar-04 14:09 by pwade
Image text-base: 0x40008C00, data-base: 0x417A6000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(11r)E1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
BOOTLDR: c6sup2_rp Software (c6sup2_rp-PSV-M), Version 12.1(13)E14, EARLY
DEPLO
MENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

NGN2Catalyst-95 uptime is 16 minutes
Time since NGN2Catalyst-95 switched to active is 16 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on (SP by power-on)
System restarted at 03:26:53 EDT Fri Sep 24 2004
System image file is "sup-bootflash:c6sup22-psv-mz.121-13.E14.bin"

cisco Catalyst 6000 (R7000) processor with 458752K/65536K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID SAL06376171
R7000 CPU at 300Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 3.3, 256KB L2, 1024KB L3 Cache
Last reset from power-on
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
Bridging software.
1 FlexWAN controller (1 ATM).
17 Virtual Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
96 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
18 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
1 ATM network interface(s)
381K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

32768K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 512K).
Configuration register is 0x2102


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