802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over RPR)

Mikael Abrahamsson swmike at swm.pp.se
Wed Jul 7 13:36:56 UTC 2004


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 at swm.pp.se




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