[j-nsp] Ethernet Preamble and FCS on EoMPLS

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:10:41AM -0300, Ruter Guike wrote:
> Hi List.
> 
> Is Juniper able to include Ethernet "preamble" and "FCS" within the mpls
> packet, on EoMPLS? Is it configurable?
> 
> AFAIK, these fields are removed, by default, before encapsulating...

Preamble and FCS are layer 1 overhead, they aren't part of the frame and 
can't be transported across MPLS or anything else. Not that there would 
be any point in doing so, they carry no information of value and will be 
recreated on the other side when transmitted again.

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