[c-nsp] Unable to connect VLAN traffic

[Justin Shore]

Johnny Ramirez wrote:
> 
> Justin,
>  
> I appreciate your well explained answer. So basically they would tell me 
> what VLANs I should use for me to match them.

That's one possibility.  Hopefully your SP has progressed beyond that 
point though and supports Q-in-Q.  It scales much better than 
integrating customer VLAN IDs with the SP's VLAN IDs.  With Q-in-Q 
they'll internally assign a VLAN ID to your access interface and will 
prepend that VLAN tag to whatever VLAN tags you hand them on your trunk 
port.  They'll switch that double-stacked Ethernet frame across their SP 
backbone to your other remote access interface.  That's of course an 
assumption based on what you wrote about shared fiber.  It's possible 
they're doing some sort of EoMPLS but the access edge will still likely 
be Q-in-Q to stuff multiple VLANs into a EoMPLS VC.

HTH
  Justin