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Configuring Classical IP
2.3.4 Operational Issues
Certain hosts in an LIS may not support Classical IP. It is still possible to communicate with
these hosts (and for these hosts to communicate with one another) by using static ARP entries.
If a host does not support Classical IP, its IP-to-ATM address mapping should be placed in its
ARP server’s cache as a static entry. This allows other hosts that do support Classical IP to
contact their ARP server as usual and obtain the correct address mapping. If a host that does
not support Classical IP wants to initiate connections, the IP-to-ATM address mappings of the
destination hosts should be put in its ARP cache, again as static entries. By using static ARP
entries in the above fashion, the ability for all hosts to communicate is maintained.
There are some restrictions on the number of hosts that can be maintained dynamically. They
are as follows:
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In the default configuration, a host can only have approximately 250 virtual con-
nections open simultaneously. This means that an ARP server can only serve 250
clients, since each client must maintain a connection with its ARP server. This
may be a limitation if the ARP server is servicing multiple LISs.
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It is possible to increase the number of connections using AMI.
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Some hosts may be limited to supporting a maximum of 1,024 connections per
adapter.
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