[e-nsp] Summit/Alpine - ExtremeWare and QinQ

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Marcin Kuczera wrote:

> is there any other method to make it ?
> Or its impossible on Summit5i/Alpine at all ?

i-chipset was designed in 97-98 or so. It doesn't have q-in-q.

> I feel like these switches can not use 2 ethertypes paralelly..

You can set what ethertype it considers to be dot1q packets, that's it.

> What I want to do one day is to connect RedBack BRAS via Extreme "core" to 
> edge devices (Dlin DES-3028) that will terminate QinQ circuits on physical 
> ports, so that every subscribers will have it's own QinQ vlan towards BRAS.

If your 3028 can do qinq then it can be done, otherwise I'd say no.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se