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RE: 802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over RPR)
From: Sam Stickland <sam_ml () spacething org>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:17:54 +0100 (BST)
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Sam Stickland wrote:One question about this, the Q-in-Q tunnelling would have to take place on the switch connected to the ring - what happens if the packet has already been placed in a dot1Q tunnel? I haven't really worked much with dot1Q tunneling - are their any know problems with extra tags? (aside from MTU issues, but I imagine most rings will support at least 9bytes)Most switches will only see the outer tag and will thus be transparent for Q-in-Q:ed packets.
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? Sam
Current thread:
- 802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over RPR) sam_ml (Jul 06)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: 802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over RPR) Michael Smith (Jul 06)
- RE: 802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over RPR) Sam Stickland (Jul 07)
- RE: 802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over RPR) Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 07)
- RE: 802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over RPR) Sam Stickland (Jul 07)
- RE: 802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over RPR) Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 07)
- RE: 802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over RPR) Sam Stickland (Jul 07)