[113679] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IXP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sat Apr 18 03:08:00 2009
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:07:45 +0000
In-Reply-To: <A2151CBA-1AEA-47E1-A0C0-1D8B6C2108F6@daork.net> (Nathan Ward's
message of "Sat\, 18 Apr 2009 16\:35\:17 +1200")
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net> writes:
> On 18/04/2009, at 12:08 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
>> ... Q in Q is not how i'd build this... cisco and juniper both have
>> hardware tunnelling capabilities that support this stuff... ...
>
> On Alcatel-Lucent 7x50 gear, VLAN IDs are only relevant to that local
> port. If you want to build a "VLAN" that operates like it does on a Cisco
> switch or something, you set up a tag on each port, and join the tags
> together with a L2 switching service. The tag IDs can be different on
> each port, or the same... it has no impact.
apologies for leaving out alcatel-lucent and any other vendor who can also
do this. i mentioned only juniper and cisco in the above-quoted article
because that's the limit of my own knowledge on this topic.
--
Paul Vixie
