[f-nsp] MPLS VLL Between Cisco and Brocade

[Matt Kassawara]

Yes, because Cisco (and Juniper) use raw-mode (type 5) VLLs.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Matthew Walster <matthew at walster.org> wrote:
> Setting "tag-type tag2 ethe x/y" will allow tagged traffic to pass
> through a "regular" VLL (not raw-mode, IIRC) but from what I hear, it
> has interop issues with Cisco still.
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> On 15 February 2012 00:44, Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Last I checked, setting tag1 to 9100 will pass tagged traffic through
>> a type 5 VLL.  However, it also causes the ethertype to change on
>> ports not associated with the VLL.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:12 AM,  <sam-ml at arahant.net> wrote:
>>> We had a similar problem, tried running VLL between a CER-RT (5.2) and a
>>> 7600 running SRE and later 15.x. As long as we put untagged traffic on the
>>> VLL everything worked fine, but 802.1q tagged traffic didn't pass even if
>>> we could see ARP. Brocade suggested  to add the following lines to the
>>> config:
>>>
>>> tag-value tag2 9100
>>> tag-type cvlan tag2 svlan tag1 bvlan tag1
>>>
>>> however this didn’t work for us. We also asked if this will be fixed in
>>> the upcoming code, but apparently this is not going to happen due to an
>>> architectural limitation of the CER platform.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> --
>>> sam
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