802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over RPR)

Wed Jul 7 03:50:04 UTC 2004

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

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> Subject: 802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over
RPR)
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> 
> 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
> 