[c-nsp] Bridge L2 network across WAN

Andrew Gristina agristina+cisco-nsp at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 23:36:58 EST 2008


You can also look at QinQ tunneling.  But really that just extends the
pain.  It might be more worth your time to deal with the flat layer 2
network.

On Jan 8, 2008 5:47 PM, Geyer, Nick <nick.geyer at eds.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
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> I am hoping someone can help me out here. We have an old legacy network
> which is just a flat L2 network across multiple sites connected by
> fibre. For various reasons this fibre will no longer be available for
> use, so I need to find another way to keep this L2 network intact. There
> is a routed network between all the buildings, so I am hoping there is
> some sort of bridge scenario to carry this L2 traffic across.
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> My plan at the moment was to connect these l2 switches at the sites into
> a 2811 at each site which in turn will be connected into the routed
> network. So basically I am after a way to bridge this l2 network across
> the 2811's/routed network.
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> Any help would be extremely appreciated.
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> Regards,
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> Nikolas Geyer.
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