[c-nsp] Wierd MPLS/VPLS issue

[Nick Hilliard]

Simon Lockhart wrote:
> Cisco TAC finally accepted the issue. Bug CSCvc33783 has been logged. Nexus BU
> has investigated.
> 
> Response is...
> 
> "[...] unfortunately this is an ASIC limitation on the Nexus 9000 switches and
> is therefore not fixable."
> 
> If you want a Layer 2 switch that will forward all valid Ethernet frames, I'd
> suggest avoiding the Nexus 9000 range...

so just to confirm, what you're saying is that if the N9k switch is in
standard L2 mode, no L3 or mpls configured, that it cannot forward VPLS
frames with MAC addresses starting with either 4 or 6?

Nick