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Hello: I think this is pretty provider-specific. However, we are doing this right now with a particular vendor using their flavor of RPR. The ring uses Q in Q tunneling in the core and all switches communicate directly to one another using .1Q encapsulated frames. Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:50 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: 802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over RPR) > > > Hi, > > This is probably a fairly simply question, I'm probably just not quite > groking the layers involved here. > > If I had the following setup: > > Endstation A -- Switch A === RPR Ring === Switch B -- Endstation B > > could there be a VLAN setup such that Endstations A and B are both in it, > and can communicate as if they are on the same LAN segment? (And I mean > natively. ie. not using an MPLS VPN). ie. Will the switches involved > tranlate the different framing formats in use? Is this vendor dependent? > > Sam >
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