[c-nsp] ME3600X & A9K L2 Protocol Tunnelling support

[Dodd, Steven]

>From the Cisco Live presentation BRKSPG-2209 - Designing Access Network With the ME3600X and ME3800X

MEF CE 2.0 L2PT forward Options - 15.3(2)S

3600-HL-4(config-if-srv)#l2protocol forward ?
R4 Reserved Protocol using DA Mac 0180.C200.0004
R5 Reserved Protocol using DA Mac 0180.C200.0005
R6 Reserved Protocol using DA Mac 0180.C200.0006
R8 Reserved Protocol using DA Mac 0180.C200.0008
R9 Reserved Protocol using DA Mac 0180.C200.0009
RA Reserved Protocol using DA Mac 0180.C200.000A
RB Reserved Protocol using DA Mac 0180.C200.000B
RC Reserved Protocol using DA Mac 0180.C200.000C
RD Reserved Protocol using DA Mac 0180.C200.000D
RF Reserved Protocol using DA Mac 0180.C200.000F
cdp Cisco Discovery Protocol
dtp Dynamic Trunking Protocol
elmi ELMI Protocol
esmc ESMC Protocol
lacp LACP Protocol
lldp Link Layer Discovery Protocol
loam Link OAM Protocol
pagp Port Aggregation Protocol
ptppd PTP Peer Delay Protocol
stp Spanning Tree Protocol
udld UDLD Protocol
vtp pagp Port Aggregation Protocol
ptppd PTP Peer Delay Protocol
stp Spanning Tree Protocol
udld UDLD Protocol
vtp Vlan Trunking Protocol

-Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jason Lixfeld
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:16 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net NSP
Subject: [c-nsp] ME3600X & A9K L2 Protocol Tunnelling support

As far as what I can glean from various configuration guides and other bits of documentation:

ME3600s don't support L2 protocol tunneling on cross-connect EVCs, but they do on port based xconnects or on EVCs where the sp-facing interfaces are trunks; they will forward, tunnel or peer various layer 2 protocols.  Does that include STP variants (RSTP, PVST, R-PVST, MST, EAPS)?  Pause and 802.1x appear to be a part of the MEF CE2.0 spec and it seems the ME3600 is compliant, so I'm presuming these will all work with a port based xconnect?

IOS XR configuration docs that I've found seem to say the platform only supports L2 protocol tunnelling for STP, VTP and CDP.  Is that it?  That seems like a bit of a weak feature set if I'm using something like an A9K as a PE compared to an ME3600.  I read a Cisco presentation from July 2013 that says the A9K is MEF CE2.0 compliant so it should support at least everything the ME3600 supports, but I'd expect to be able to find some sort of configuration guide telling me how to configure these L2PT bits.  Can anyone point me to some docs?

Thanks in advance.




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