DLSW

Data Link Switching Plus

ACKs for and takes responsibility for LLC packets

=Encapsulation=

TCP FST - low overhead, no reliability, no link failure reroutes, tokenring Direct - tokenring, hdlc & frame relay LLC2 (DLSW Lite) - frame relay

=Configuration=

To keep redundancy between dual connections, configure a loopback address to be used instead of physical interface addresses

config# bridge 1 protocol ieee config-if# bridge-group 1 config# dlsw local-peer peer-id 170.100.100.2 config# dlsw remote-peer 0 tcp 170.100.100.3 config# dlsw bridge-group 1 (linked transparent bridging with DLSW)

=View/Debug Commands=

show dlsw peers show dlsw circuits debug dlsw peers