User`s guide

Configuring the Pipeline as a Bridge
Introduction to Ascend bridging
5-4 Preliminary January 30, 1998 Pipeline User’s Guide
to the remote bridge must be exactly the same name specified in the Station
parameter of that Connection profile.
Note:
The most common cause of trouble when initially setting up a PPP
bridging connection is that the names are not specified exactly. Check for case,
dashes, spaces, underscores, and so forth.
Bridging in the Answer profile
Bridging must be enabled on both the answering and dialing side of a PPP, MP, or
MP+ session link. Otherwise the link cannot bridge packets. In addition,
password authentication is required for unique identification of devices. Unlike
an IP routing configuration, where the Pipeline uniquely identifies the calling
device by its IP address, a bridging configuration does not include a built-in way
to identify incoming callers. For that reason, password authentication is required
unless IP routing is configured in the same Connection profile. For details about
PPP or MPP encapsulation, see Chapter 1, “Configuring WAN Connections.”
To set Answer profile parameters for a bridging connection:
1
Open the Ethernet > Answer > PPP options menu.
2
Turn on bridging. (The setting for Bridge is N/A until the Bridging
parameter in the Ethernet profile is set.)
Bridge=Yes
3
Set Recv Auth to Either (PAP, CHAP, or MS-CHAP).
4
Exit the Answer profile.
About IPX bridging
IPX bridging has special requirements for facilitating NetWare client/server
logins across the WAN and preventing IPX RIP and SAP broadcasts from
keeping a bridged connection up indefinitely.
Like all options in the IPX Options submenu, the Handle IPX parameter is set to
N/A if an IPX frame type is not specified in the Ethernet profile. Also, if Route
IPX is set to Yes in the Connection profile, the Handle IPX parameter is set to
N/A, but acts as if it is set to Server.