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. Mike
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of sam_ml@spacething.org Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:50 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: 802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over RPR)
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