[c-nsp] acl on bvi in ios xr (9k) 4.1.2

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:20:37AM +0200, ?ukasz Bromirski wrote:
> On 7/20/12 1:08 PM, Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:58:58PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
> >>	I think my point is..  If you are buying an asr9k
> >>you can likely afford an ethernet switch vs using an
> >>expensive router port.
> >Sometimes BVI are the poor man's multi-chassis etherchannel to
> >get redundant links to downstream switches...
> 
> On ASR9k you can configure MC-LAG, which is present for that kind of
> scenarios, and you don't need to use BVI to build some tricky
> workarounds.

Maybe I do not understand what MC-LAG does, but I'm not sure how it would
help here?

The scenario described is "one router, two different switches, both 
switches are standalone and have no multi-chassis capabilities".  So you
can do BVI on the router, some sort of "backup interface", or...?

gert
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