RE: pVLANs question (cross-customer connectivity problem)

From: Desmarais, Jonathan (JDesmarais@colt-telecom.com)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 03:40:12 EDT


This is how we acheive the layer-2 seperation of Hosted customers in our
IDC's.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 'Dmitri Kalintsev' [mailto:dek@hades.uz]
> Sent: 06 June 2001 23:24
> To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: pVLANs question (cross-customer connectivity problem)
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:29:07PM +0100, Desmarais, Jonathan wrote:
> > The correct solution is to add a static route to the local
> network through
> > the participating router, to all customer systems on the
> pVLAN. And on that
> > router control the level of access to the customer with the "popular
> > databse".
>
> Is this a real life experience or a speculation? I can
> achieve the same
> effect by configuring netmask of /32 on client side, but will
> it work? I
> have a feeling that it shouldn't, that's why I ask if what
> you suggest is a
> real life experience.
>
> > Sort of fooling the customers systems into sending local
> traffic to the
> > router first.
> >
> > Regards
> > Jon..
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dmitri Kalintsev [mailto:dek@hades.uz]
> > > Sent: 06 June 2001 06:36
> > > To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> > > Subject: pVLANs question (cross-customer connectivity problem)
> > >
> > >
> > > We're about to implement pVLANs in our IDC. I have a
> burning question
> > > regarding addressing and cross-customer access when using
> > > pVLANs. Consider
> > > this:
> > >
> > > 1. IP address block used for customers (valid routable IP
> > > block) is say
> > > x.x.x.x/21
> > >
> > > 2. Imagine that we have a customer, who runs popular database
> > > (for example,
> > > geographic map database) and we have few other customers who
> > > wish to use
> > > this database from their applications running on their
> > > servers, so they will
> > > need an access to first customer's server, but only to
> one service, so
> > > placing them all together in community vlan will not cut
> > > anything besides
> > > making first customer very pissed off.
> > >
> > > 3. Giving all customers netmasks of /32 and assigning promisc
> > > port netmask
> > > of /21 won't help for obvious reasons.
> > >
> > > I'm thinking about giving rfc1918 addresses to hosted
> > > customers and NATing
> > > them on 6509's MSFC to provide this functionality. Any other
> > > ways of solving
> > > this problem?
> > >
> > > Or is there a problem? ;^)
> > >
> > > SY,
> > > --
> > > CCNP, CCDP (R&S) Dmitri E. Kalintsev
> > > CDPlayer@irc Network Architect @ connect.com.au
> > > dek @ connect.com.au phone: +61 39 674 3913 fax: 251 3666
> > > http://-UNAVAIL- UIN:7150410 cell: +61 41 335 1634
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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> CCNP, CCDP (R&S) Dmitri E. Kalintsev
> CDPlayer@irc Network Architect @ connect.com.au
> dek @ connect.com.au phone: +61 39 674 3913 fax: 251 3666
> http://-UNAVAIL- UIN:7150410 cell: +61 41 335 1634
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