[c-nsp] Bridging ethernet to MLPPP

[Mike]

On 12/27/2010 07:51 PM, Joe Freeman wrote:
> I've got a situation where a customer is having to relocate from one
> facility to another a few  miles away. This customer has a 100Mb metro
> ethernet connection at the old location, and can't get it moved for several
> months.
>
> To help them out, we're trying to setup a pair of 3620's that we had with
> wic-1dsu-t1's (4 ea router) to bridge the metro e across a multilink ppp
> group and back to an ethernet connection at the new site.
>

Well, I don't think you can do ethernet bridging over MLPPP, however, 
you sure as heck could develop a larger pipe to the end user with MLPPP 
and then you could use something like OpenVPN to establish ethernet 
bridging over that. Basically you'd just need two boxes running linux 
and openvpn and using the openvpn howto recepie for ethernet bridging 
you could be up and running shortly.

	I know it's "one more box" and a non-cisco solution, but it's worthy of 
investigating if you have anyone on your team who is in this space already.

Mike-