[c-nsp] GRE tunnel to do span vlan across two datacenters?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:08:53PM -0400, Jason Gurtz wrote:
> A firm has proposed creating a GRE tunnel between two datacenters (using a
> 3750X stack at each) to create the spanned vlans needed for VMWare
> failover application.

I'd double-check that the 3750X can do that.  The 3750-with-no-X can *not*.

> There is dark fiber
> available, what about VPLS w/ LDP or L2TP solution?

If there's fiber available, why not "just trunk the VLANs across"?

gert
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