[72345] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: 802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over RPR)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Smith)
Tue Jul 6 23:55:38 2004
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 20:50:04 -0700
From: "Michael Smith" <mksmith@noanet.net>
To: <sam_ml@spacething.org>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hello:
I think this is pretty provider-specific. However, we are doing this
right now with a particular vendor using their flavor of RPR. The ring
uses Q in Q tunneling in the core and all switches communicate directly
to one another using .1Q encapsulated frames. =20
Mike
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> Subject: 802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over
RPR)
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> Hi,
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> This is probably a fairly simply question, I'm probably just not quite
> groking the layers involved here.
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> If I had the following setup:
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> Endstation A -- Switch A =3D=3D=3D RPR Ring =3D=3D=3D Switch B -- =
Endstation B
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> 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?
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> Sam
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