[c-nsp] ASR920 Service Instance - when to 'rewrite ingress'

[Vinod Kumar Balasubramanyam (vinbalas)]

Hi Eric,

Your understanding is right. I'm out of office this week, let me get back
to you next week to figure what the issue is.

Thanks, 


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On 8/19/15, 6:39 PM, "cisco-nsp on behalf of Eric Van Tol"
<cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net on behalf of eric at atlantech.net> wrote:

>Hi all,
>Ran into an issue we haven't seen before, primarily due to a
>misunderstanding of when to use 'rewrite ingress tag pop 1 symmetric'.
>We turned up a new ASR920 and had some trouble getting traffic to pass
>between service instances on different interfaces.  Here's the config we
>had:
>
>interface GigabitEthernet0/0/6
> mtu 9216
> no ip address
> load-interval 30
> negotiation auto
> service instance 243 ethernet
>  description SI243
>  encapsulation dot1q 243
>  bridge-domain 243
> !
>end 
>interface GigabitEthernet0/0/23
> mtu 9216
> no ip address
> load-interval 30
> negotiation auto
> service instance trunk 1 ethernet
>  encapsulation dot1q 243,1958,1961,1969,1976,2305
>  bridge-domain from-encapsulation
> !
>
>We had two issues here.  The first issue was that no traffic was coming
>in over Gi0/0/23 - no MAC addresses being learned on any of the VLANs.
>Service instance 243 on Gi0/0/6 *was* learning MACs.  The MAC learning on
>the upstream port was resolved by adding 'rewrite ingress tag pop 1
>symmetric', but then traffic wasn't passing from the SI on 0/0/23 to the
>downstream SIs until adding the same config line in each of the
>downstream service instances.
>
>I always was under the impression that 'rewrite ingress tag' was used for
>either translation or termination of the VLAN on the local node, but
>unnecessary when transparently passing traffic between SIs on different
>interfaces.  Is this wrong?
>
>Thanks,
>evt
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