
Using Source Routing Bridge Services
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How IP Encapsulation Works
When you enable IP encapsulation on a source routing bridge (thus making it an
IP encapsulating bridge), you assign a single ring ID to the entire IP backbone
network. The source routing bridge assigns only a single route descriptor to the
frame’s RIF to describe the entire internet, regardless of the IP network size that
the frame traverses. Therefore, frames source routed over large IP networks can
remain within maximum hop-count restrictions.
Whenever a Bay Networks source routing bridge receives an explorer frame, the
bridge sends it toward an IP encapsulating bridge, which resides at the edge of the
IP backbone network. (For example, in F
igure 2-4, Bridges A, B, and C are IP
encapsulating bridges.) The IP encapsulating bridge encloses the source routed
frame within an IP header before it sends the frame out onto the network. When
the frame reaches a peer IP encapsulating bridge, the bridge removes the
encapsulation from the frame and sends it out the appropriate source routing
interfaces.
Each IP encapsulating bridge maintains a dynamic mapping of destination IP
addresses to the ring and bridge IDs of their directly attached rings. When an IP
encapsulating bridge receives a source routed frame, it performs these steps:
1. Checks the frame’s RIF for the ring and bridge ID that immediately follow the
IP network ring and bridge ID in the RIF
2. Looks up the IP address that corresponds with this ring and bridge ID
3. Encapsulates the frame in an IP packet with the destination IP address
4. Sends the frame out onto the IP network
For example, F
igure 2-4 shows the IP mapping table for IP encapsulating
bridge A.
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