Re: EoMPLS vlan rewrite between brands; possibly new bug in Cisco IOS 15

[Jonas Bjork <mr.jonas.bjork () me com>]

Dear Mr. Bensley,

The platform is Cisco 7600 on side A and HP A5500-HI on side B. I am currently running IOS v12.2-33.SRE5 and I'm trying 
to upgrade to v15.3-3.S6.
In the current version the VC type is Eth VLAN and I have tried all different options on the HP side with no success. 
On the Cisco side I don't know if there is anything I can do - the negotiation seems to take place without any possible 
user interference.

It's true that I can terminate the tunnel elsewhere and switch the traffic using layer 2 but I don't want to have any 
"ugly" solutions in the network. Everything works fine even though I rewrite the vlan id (and that is essential for my 
solution) at the moment and it bothers me that an IOS upgrade triggers this bug. The bug is submitted (against Juniper) 
as previously mentioned in this thread but Cisco won't do anything about it.

Best regards,

Jonas Bjork
Network Nerd

> On 16 Nov 2015, at 10:21, James Bensley <jwbensley () gmail com> wrote:
>
> On 15 November 2015 at 01:31, Jonas Bjork <mr.jonas.bjork () me com <mailto:mr.jonas.bjork () me com>> wrote:
> > Dear Mr. Jeff,
> >
> > Thank you for your reply. Below is the complete output in question (l2 is short for l2transport).
> > You are mentioning platform capabilities and that the default might have changed. How do I alter this?
> >
> > pe#sh mpls l2 vc 42 d
> > Local interface: Po190.42 up, line protocol up, Eth VLAN 42 up
> >  Destination address: X.X.1.89, VC ID: 42, VC status: down
> >    Last error: Imposition VLAN rewrite capability mismatch with peer
> >    Output interface: none, imposed label stack {}
> >    Preferred path: not configured
> >    Default path: no route
> >    No adjacency
> >  Create time: 00:00:59, last status change time: 00:31:40
> >    Last label FSM state change time: 00:00:18
> >    Last peer autosense occurred at: 00:00:18
> >  Signaling protocol: LDP, peer X.X.1.89:0 up
> >    Targeted Hello: X.X.0.2(LDP Id) -> X.X.1.89, LDP is UP
> >    Graceful restart: not configured and not enabled
> >    Non stop routing: not configured and not enabled
> >    Status TLV support (local/remote)   : enabled/not supported
> >      LDP route watch                   : enabled
> >      Label/status state machine        : remote invalid, LruRnd
> >      Last local dataplane   status rcvd: No fault
> >      Last BFD dataplane     status rcvd: Not sent
> >      Last BFD peer monitor  status rcvd: No fault
> >      Last local AC  circuit status rcvd: No fault
> >      Last local AC  circuit status sent: DOWN PW(rx/tx faults)
> >      Last local PW i/f circ status rcvd: No fault
> >      Last local LDP TLV     status sent: No fault
> >      Last remote LDP TLV    status rcvd: Not sent
> >      Last remote LDP ADJ    status rcvd: No fault
> >    MPLS VC labels: local 242, remote 1199
> >    Group ID: local 0, remote 0
> >    MTU: local 9216, remote 9216
> >    Remote interface description:
> >    Remote VLAN id: 42
> >  Sequencing: receive disabled, send disabled
> >  Control Word: Off (configured: autosense)
> >  SSO Descriptor: X.X.1.89/42, local label: 242
> >  Dataplane:
> >    SSM segment/switch IDs: 0/0 (used), PWID: 142
> >  VC statistics:
> >    transit packet totals: receive 0, send 0
> >    transit byte totals:   receive 0, send 0
> >    transit packet drops:  receive 0, seq error 0, send 0
> > pe#
> >
> > Anyone else: feel free to join in. Maybe we have any L2VC/PW ninjas watching.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Jonas Bjork
>
> Hi Jonas,
>
> In that output you have "Remote VLAN id: 42" -What is the local VLAN
> ID on your Cisco PE? Do you need to VLAN rewrite here?
>
> Since you using different VLANs at each end, can you build the
> pseudowire at a point in the network stack where the VLAN tag has been
> popped off already and transport the frames untagged, so they will be
> pushed on again at the other end? (Is this is a VC type 4 pseudowire,
> check with "show mpls l2transport binding 42", if so, a dummy VLAN
> should be pushed on and popped off transparently if all hardware in
> use supports it).
>
> I don't know HP but with the Cisco 7600 for example, if it's VLAN 50
> then you could add "interface vlan 50; xconnecy X.X.1.89 42 encaps
> mpls", if your hardware supports that. Or use mux-uni; "int gix/x.y;
> encaps dot1q y; xconnecy X.X.1.89 42 encaps mpls". Then add vice versa
> on the HP kit.
>
> What IOS have you tried to upgrade to, 15.2(4)S4a? If this is a VC
> type 4 pseudowire and either the HP or Cisco isn't supporting
> inserting a dummy VLAN tag, why is this a VC type 4 pseudowire? The
> VLAN re-write I guess. Certainly in IOS 15.3 (so probably also in 15.2
> but I'm not 100% certain of that) Cisco IOS should be defaulting to VC
> type 5 unless the other end negotiates down to VC type 4. VC type 5 in
> IOS supports transporting of untagged, tagged and double tagged
> frames, I don't think there is any functionality in VC type 5 that
> wasn't in older type 4's so I'd try and work out why your devices are
> negotiating type 4 and maybe try to fix that, or as above, transport
> untagged.
>
> Cheers,
> James.