Bridging not passing

[cellzdirect]

I have two Cisco 1601-R routers with a point to point T1 between them on WIC cards.

Router 1 has IP address 192.168.10.11/24 on both Ser1 and Eth0, set to bridge
Router 2 has IP address 192.168.10.22/24 on both Ser1 and Eth0, set to bridge
Device A has IP address 192.168.10.15/24
Device B has IP address 192.168.10.25/24

[tt]
Device A --- (10bT)
|
Router 1 --
|
(T1)
|
Router 2 --
|
Device B --- (10bT)
[/tt]

I can ping each router from the other router's console. (strangely, Router A cannot ping its own IP, Router B cannot ping its own IP.)

I cannot, however, ping anything other than the loopback address from either Device A or Device B. (ARP cache shows 'invalid' address for nearest router)

What am I not doing? (I believe that if ARP will work, the system will work, is that correct?)

 

[hexn]

Make sure you disable ip routing:

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no ip routing
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I had the same problem a while ago, and that was the solution.

 

[cellzdirect]

Well, that was already set... but good news: I'm halfway there.

Seems I forgot to "no shutdown" the ethernet interface (silly, silly me...) [sigh]

I can ping from Router 1 to Device A now, due to the newly non-shutdown eth0 interface. (yay!)

more to follow, likely...

 

[cellzdirect]

OK... now I can see MAC addresses of Host A from Host B and vice-versa by ARP.

I cannot, however, ARP the MAC address of Router 2 from Host A (or the MAC of Router 1 from Host B, for that matter.) Is that due to the fact that both the Eth0 and Ser1 interfaces of Router 2 have the same IP address? Can I safely remove the IP addresses from the ser1 interfaces without screwing things up?

I need to see both routers from Host A for SMTP purposes, and so far I can only see the near router, and not the far router.

Thanks