Configuring LAN Interfaces

Configuring a LAN Extender Interface

Configuring the LAN Extender

You configure the LAN Extender from the core router—either a Cisco 4000 series or Cisco 7000 series router—as if it were simply a network interface board. The LAN Extender cannot be managed or configured from the remote Ethernet LAN or via a Telnet session.

To configure the LAN Extender, you configure a logical LAN Extender interface on the core router and assign the MAC address from your LAN Extender to that interface. Subsequently, during the PPP negotiation on the serial line, the LAN Extender sends its preconfigured MAC address to the core router. The core router then searches for an available (preconfigured) LAN Extender interface, seeking one to which you have already assigned that MAC address. If the core router finds a match, it binds, or associates, that LAN Extender interface to the serial line on which that MAC address was negotiated. At this point, the LAN Extender interface is created and is operational. If the MAC address does not match one that is configured, the connection request is rejected. Figure 6 illustrates this binding process.

Figure 6 Binding a Serial Line to a LAN Extender Interface

S1

 

 

 

 

 

S0

S2

 

 

LAN Extender

Core router

 

 

MAC Address

Serial

 

 

 

00.00.0c.01.00.05

Available LAN

 

MAC

Interface

Extender Interfaces

Address

S0

0

 

00.00.0c.00.00.01

S1

1

 

00.00.0c.00.01.03

S2

2

 

00.00.0c.01.00.05

S1

 

 

 

PPP

 

 

 

negotiation

1.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

S0

S2

 

 

LAN Extender

Core router

 

 

2.)

My MAC address 00.00.0c.01.00.05

00.00.0c.01.00.05 corresponds to

3.) LAN Extender interface 2 on serial interface 2

S1

4.)

S0S2

Core router

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LAN Extender

LAN Extender interface 2, and hence LAN extender is bound to serial interface 2

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