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Anyone out there providing Public Services over MEF E-Tree ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Francois Menard)
Sun Jan 9 14:30:52 2011
From: Francois Menard <francois@menards.ca>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 14:28:37 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In an effort of figuring out a metro ethernet access network to carry =
Internet access services,=20
I'm comparing the approaches of several equipment manufacturers insofar =
as how,
they allow a metro service provider to provide point-to-multipoint =
E-TREE public services,
(where the leaves of the multipoint tree are different billing entities =
from that of the root of the tree),
such that it remains possible to distinguish at the root traffic =
originating from a given service provider demarcation device in the =
tree.
In an effort to solve this problem, I am finding myself diving deep down =
into the behaviour of Ethernet switches at the 802.1Q 2005 bridge =
behaviour.
I would appreciate feedback from people whom are aware since WHEN and =
under which conditions, Ethernet switches have begun to implement =
separate MAC addresses for every client ports.
and whether such MAC addresses draw from the global pool of MAC =
addresses.
A cursory understanding of this leads me to believe that as soon as a =
switch is capable of spanning tree on a downstream client port, it must =
have separate MAC addresses for every client port.
Feedback appreciated
-=3DFrancois=3D-
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