[nsp] ATMoMPLS question

[Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)]

>  is it possible to do 'mpls l2transport route x.x.x.x yy' for
> ethernet on two interfaces of the same PE? 

No, but Ethernet-to-Ethernet can easily be done with plain old
transparent bridging ("bridge-group"-interface command) if your
platform/IOS supports this. 

	oli

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) [mailto:oboehmer at cisco.com]
> Sent: 15 June 2004 07:02
> To: Bruce Robertson
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [nsp] ATMoMPLS question
> 
> Hi Bruce
> 
>> I'm trying to use the "mpls l2transport route x.x.x.x yy" config to
>> tie two PVCs together with ATMoMPLS.  Unfortunately, one of the
>> requirements is that "x.x.x.x yy" must be unique on a router, and the
>> two PVCs happen to be on different interfaces on the same router.  Is
>> there any way to get this to work when there is only one PE router?
>> It's important that this gets done at layer 2, as I will have no idea
>> what L3 and above protocols my customer might be using on a
>> particular 
> 
>> PVC.  I don't really care whether it's with AToM, or some
>> other technique.
> 
> The feature you are looking for is called "Layer 2 Local Switching"
> and is available in 12.0(27)S on c7200 and c7500 (see
>
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/120newft
> /120limit/120s/120s27/fslocal.htm). It is not available in 12.3
> mainline.   
> 
> 	oli
> 
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