[72325] in North American Network Operators' Group
802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over RPR)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sam_ml@spacething.org)
Tue Jul 6 14:47:54 2004
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 19:50:24 +0100 (BST)
From: sam_ml@spacething.org
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hi,
This is probably a fairly simply question, I'm probably just not quite
groking the layers involved here.
If I had the following setup:
Endstation A -- Switch A === RPR Ring === Switch B -- Endstation B
could there be a VLAN setup such that Endstations A and B are both in it,
and can communicate as if they are on the same LAN segment? (And I mean
natively. ie. not using an MPLS VPN). ie. Will the switches involved
tranlate the different framing formats in use? Is this vendor dependent?
Sam
