
Using Source Routing Bridge Services
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• Specify a ring ID for the backbone IP network to which the source routing
interface connects. You enter the IP network’s ring ID using the Conn. IP
NTWK Ring Number parameter for each source routing bridge. (Refer to
“Editing Source Routing Global Parameters” later in this chapter for details
on accessing this parameter.) Specify the same IP network ring ID for each
Bay Networks source routing bridge that connects to the network.
• Enable IP encapsulation on the source routing bridges that connect to the IP
backbone. You reset the IP Encapsulation parameter to Enable for each source
routing bridge. (Refer to “Editing Source Routing Global P
arameters” later in
this chapter for details on accessing this parameter.)
• Specify the IP Explorer list for each source routing interface that connects to
the IP backbone.
The IP Explorer list defines the IP addresses that will receive explorer frames
from the bridge. These IP addresses are assigned to the token rings of remote
users. (Refer to “Adding or Deleting an IP
Address on the IP Explorer
Address List” later in this chapter for details on the IP Explorer list.)
• Create directed explorer filters to reduce excess broadcast traffic on the
network. (Refer to Configuring Traffic Filters and Protocol Prioritization for
details on filters.)
Enabling Source Routing Services
This section describes how to enable the following services on an interface:
• Source routing
• Source routing spanning tree
It assumes you have read Configuring Routers and that you have
1. Opened a configuration file
2. Specified router hardware if this is a local mode configuration file
3. Selected the link or net module connector on which you are enabling
source routing, or configured a WAN circuit if this connector requires one
When you enable any of the source routing services, you are required to configure
only a few parameters. The Configuration Manager supplies default values for the
remaining parameters. If you want to edit these default values, refer to “
Enabling
Source Routing Services on an Interface”
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