I think the dilemma is they can't be routed, but they can be bridged.

We used to do this.  I think we used a pair of HP Bridges for that
purpose.  

I may have stowed a pair in my garage after I fished them out of the
wastebasket ...

Tracy Johnson
Office 1-757-766-4318
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Landin
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:51 AM
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> Subject: [HP3000-L] Remote DTC -- switch config
> 
> We're needing to place a remote DTC across town from where our A500 is
> currently housed. These two sites are connected via a local 
> loop transparent
> LAN. In between these two units are at least 2 Procurve 5412 
> switches and a
> Cisco router or two.
> 
> I know that somehow the switches and routers must be 
> configured so as to
> allow multicasting on addresses 09-00-09-xx-xx-xx to be 
> forwarded and not
> filtered, but our Procurve administrators aren't quite sure 
> they know how
> exactly how to do this and I'd like to see them get it done 
> sooner rather
> than later. They said "unless you can tell me exactly how to 
> do this, it
> won't be this week". Ouch. We plan to go live with this box 
> very soon and I
> don't want to wait!
> 
> Does anybody know Procurve-ese for configuring what's 
> necessary to allow
> remote DTC operation across our network?
> 
> -- 
> "He's old enough to know what's right and young enough not to 
> choose it.
> He's strong enough to win the world and weak enough to lose 
> it." - Neal
> Peart
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