Re: Is trunking over WAN possible ?

From: phase90@comcast.net
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 14:47:24 GMT-3


Anthony and group,

                I have done essentially the same thing over the past few years

using CLIP to link geographically far away Naval sites. I'm not sure what application

they were running on top of this but they claim it worked!

Jerry

> I saw this thread regarding the preservation of VLANS across a WAN
> backbone and it reminded me of something I did several years ago. It used
> a CAT5000 LANE card but the configuration was much more vanilla than
> LANE. It simply glued VLANs to PVC's on both sides of the ATM link and
> you essentially had one big VLAN. I don't know the official name for
> this but it was helpful in a situation where routing was not desirable.
> It was necessary for device-1 on VLAN-10 (east coast) to arp for device-2
> on VLAN-10 (west coast).
>
> I use an LS1010 in these notes below but the ATM cloud behaved the same
> way.
>
> Anthony Pace CCIE #10349
>
>
>
>
>
> ATM PVCs BOUND TO VLANS
>
> This is the config on the LS1010 where the ls1010 is the cloud and both
> LANE modules are in this LS1010 (DC and LA). The only thing needed on
> the LS1010 (or any switches in the cloud) are ATM PVCs mapped in and out
> of the switch (1 per VLAN)
>
> I made the VLAN name PVCs using the same digits so this is pretty easy
> to follow. You also need to configure the LEC on each VLAN as well. The
> VLAN names on the Ethernet switch can be anything and the VTP domains can
> be different or the same. VTP information does not seem to traverse the
> LANE so each city will need to be configured individually on the Ethernet
> side.
>
>
> LS1010
>
> atm address 47.0091.8100.0000.0003.3200.8401.0003.3200.8401.00
> atm router pnni
> no aesa embedded-number left-justified
> node 1 level 56 lowest
> redistribute atm-static
> !
> interface ATM12/0/0
> no ip address
> no ip directed-broadcast
> logging event subif-link-status
> no atm ilmi-keepalive
> !
> interface ATM12/0/1
> no ip address
> no ip directed-broadcast
> logging event subif-link-status
> no atm ilmi-keepalive
> atm pvc 1 111 interface ATM12/0/0 1 111
> atm pvc 2 222 interface ATM12/0/0 2 222
> atm pvc 3 333 interface ATM12/0/0 3 333
>
>
> LANE-DC
>
> interface ATM0
> logging event subif-link-status
> atm preferred phy A
> atm pvc 11 1 111 aal5snap
> atm pvc 22 2 222 aal5snap
> atm pvc 33 3 333 aal5snap
> atm bind pvc vlan 11 1
> atm bind pvc vlan 22 2
> atm bind pvc vlan 33 3
> atm ilmi-keepalive
>
> LANE-LA
>
> interface ATM0
> logging event subif-link-status
> atm preferred phy A
> atm pvc 11 1 111 aal5snap
> atm pvc 22 2 222 aal5snap
> atm pvc 33 3 333 aal5snap
> atm bind pvc vlan 11 1
> atm bind pvc vlan 22 2
> atm bind pvc vlan 33 3
> atm ilmi-keepalive
>
>
> On Tue, 11 May 2004 12:25:38 -0400, "Howard C. Berkowitz"
> <hcb@gettcomm.com> said:
> > At 5:25 PM +0300 5/11/04, Dan wrote:
> > >This draft sound so much like atm LANE? I dont know why the don't
> > >just use LANE and adapt it to ethernet ;)
> >
> > Well, in a manner of speaking, there is an equivalent. You may have
> > heard of MPLS being called "ATM without cells", and that's not a bad
> > term -- it removes some of the overhead of ATM, can use more flexible
> > standard IP routing, and can carry Ethernet payloads.
> >
> > So Ethernet-over-MPLS is functionally equivalent to LANE. There are
> > lots of variants that can apply, especially when bandwidth isn't a
> > constraint, such as Ethernet in PPP over L2TP over almost anything,
> > including ATM and MPLS.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >On Tue, 11 May 2004 10:20:23 -0400, Howard C. Berkowitz
> > ><hcb@gettcomm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>At 1:00 PM +0530 5/11/04, Sachin Shenoy wrote:
> > >>>Hi,
> > >>>
> > >>>I was wondering if trunking over WAN is possible ...
> > >>>What I mean by that is
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Serial Link
> > >>> SW1----R1<------------->R2--SW2
> > >>>
> > >>>Is it possible to trunk VLANs from SW1 to SW2 ???
> > >>>(So LAN IP ranges for VLANs on SW1 and SW2 will be the same !)
> > >>
> > >>In certain, restricted, cases, usually requiring gigabit or faster
> > >>transmision media, yes. See such things as Private VLAN Service
> > >>(more the IETF term) and QinQ encapsulation (although the latter
> > >>is not a WAN protocol, but the distinction between LAN and WAN is
> > >>less and less useful). It's also possible using MPLS.
> > >>
> > >>Why do you consider this a good idea? It has potential scalability
> > >>issues, for example, involving both absolute delay greater than
> > >>expected by LAN devices. Another scalability issue is that
> > >>uncontrolled growth at both locations may cause the safe number of
> > >>devices in a broadcast domain to be exceeded.
> > >>
> > >>I've been asked to do this many times, on the basis that "layer 2
> > >>is simpler." At a certain level of scaling, it is not. In
> > >>general, in the circumstance you describe, I'd route between the
> > >>sites without overwhelming evidence to the contrary. I can even
> > >>keep VLAN numbers consistent at both sites.
> > >>
> > >>Unfortunately, studying for the CCIE lab overempasizes lots of
> > >>things that may be possible, but not a good idea in the real world.
> > >>
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