[72353] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: 802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over RPR)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Wed Jul 7 09:37:27 2004
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:36:56 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407071415450.10437-100000@mailbox.c4l.co.uk>
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On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Sam Stickland wrote:
> That was my worry - the definition of most. 99% of switches or 60%? This
> isn't actually a standard is it, so I presume this behaviour is expected,
> but not required?
The only way to make sure is to try, but with my (I guess) average insight
in ethernet headers I don't see how a double tagged packet would be
treated differently by a non Q-in-Q aware switch as long as there is no
MTU issue.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
