[f-nsp] Port-region on MLX and CER/CES

Niels Bakker niels=foundry-nsp at bakker.net
Tue Aug 21 08:58:39 EDT 2012


* greg at dotkom.ch (Greg) [Tue 21 Aug 2012, 00:36 CEST]:
>Thank you both for your replies. For the sake of clarity what do you mean
>by "The only limitation that I see at a quick glance on the manual is when
>doing Provider (Backbone) Bridging you cannot specify different tag-types
>for BVLAN, CVLAN & SVLAN on MLX"?

You have one of those boxes, right?  Just read the documentation, 
I can't spell it out any clearer than Brocade themselves could.


>My understanding...
>
>C-VLAN -> Customer VLAN's 802.1q (aka regular VLAN tagged/untagged)
>S-VLAN -> Provider VLAN's 802.1ad (aka VLAN to carry a regular VLAN as above)
>B-VLAN -> Backbone VLAN's 802.1ah (aka carry a Q-in-Q in yet another VLAN?)

And on MLX those cannot have different tag values as they can on CER


	-- Niels.

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