[c-nsp] OC12 layer2 ?

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Fri Oct 29 04:29:10 EDT 2004


Hi,

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:10:07AM -0700, Michael Smith wrote:
> You could also run an ATM OC-12 to a LANE module on a 5500.  Then, you
> can map PVC's to VLAN's directly using RFC 1483 bridging.  Only caveat
> is the 5500 only supports ISL natively.  If you try to convert to dot1Q
> on the 5500 things get weird.

Can you elaborate on the last sentence?  

Our 5500 does dot1Q just fine, albeit not on LANE (just WS-X5225R and 
SupIIIG ports) - so I'm a bit surprised whether there any specific to
watch out for when doing dot1Q.

gert
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