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Whatdoesitmeantohavefastorautonomousswitching"enabled"and"disabled"onthesameinterface?

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What does it mean to have fast or autonomous switching “enabled” and “disabled” on the same interface?

Look at this example:

Ethernet 6 is up, line protocol is up
      Internet address is 192.192.15.1, subnet mask is 255.255.255.0       
      Broadcast address is 192.192.15.255
      Address determined by non-volatile memory MTU is 1500 bytes
      Helper address is 192.192.12.5
      Outgoing access list is not set
      Proxy ARP is enabled
      Security level is default
      Split horizon is enabled
      ICMP redirects are always sent
      ICMP unreachables are always sent
      ICMP mask replies are never sent
      
      IP autonomous switching is enabled
      IP autonomous switching on the same interface is disabled 
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      Gateway Discovery is disabled
      IP accounting is disabled
      TCP/IP header compression is disabled
      Probe proxy name replies are disabled

If you enable fast or autonomous switching on an interface, packets coming from any other interface on the router are fast-switched (or autonomous-switched) to that interface. If you enable same-interface fast or autonomous switching, packets whose source and destination address are the same are fast or autonomous switched.

You can use same-interface fast or autonomous switching in cases where you have Frame Relay or Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) WAN links configured as subinterfaces on the same main interface. Another situation is when you are using secondary networks on LAN interfaces, as during IP address migration. In order to enable same-interface fast switching, use the ip route-cache same-interface configuration command.

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