[nsp] bandwidth manager

Ryan O'Connell ryan@complicity.co.uk
Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:43:53 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)


On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 19:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Benjie Ko <gerwalk1@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to put a transparent ethernet bridge
> (bandwidth manager) between two cisco switches doing ISL
> trunking?
> 
> Will the ISL link still go up?
> According to our supplier as long as the ethernet
> frames are standard w/ standard vlan tagging, it should work, but they
> are not familiar with ISL encapsulation so they cant give me a conclusive
> answer.

ISL isn't "standard VLAN tagging" so this almost certainly won't work.
802.1q ("dot1q") is standard however, so if you can use that for trunking
instead it should work.

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