Chapter 10 Configuring IRB on the ML-Series Card

Monitoring and Verifying IRB

Example 10-1 Configuring ML_Series A

bridge irb

bridge 1 protocol ieee bridge 1 route ip

!

!

interface FastEthernet0

ip address 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0

!

interface POS0 no ip address bridge-group 1

!

interface POS1 no ip address bridge-group 1

!

interface BVI1

ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0

!

router ospf 1 log-adjacency-changes

network 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 area 0 network 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.255 area 0

Example 10-2 Configuring ML_Series B

bridge irb

bridge 1 protocol ieee bridge 1 route ip

!

!

interface FastEthernet0

ip address 192.168.3.1 255.255.255.0

!

interface POS0 no ip address bridge-group 1

!

interface POS1 no ip address bridge-group 1

!

interface BVI1

ip address 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0

!

router ospf 1 log-adjacency-changes

network 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 area 0 network 192.168.3.0 0.0.0.255 area 0

Monitoring and Verifying IRB

Table 10-1shows the privileged EXEC commands for monitoring and verifying IRB.

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