Re: trouble understanding L2 protocol tunneling

From: dampened (cheechew@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2007 - 07:54:37 ART


Dear Josef,

Which part of the document states it cannot work with dot1q?

It would be strange if the interconnect switch is unable to support dot1q.

Regards

      "Josef A" <josefnet@gmail.com>
      Sent by: nobody@groupstudy.com
      03/28/2007 06:43 PM Please respond to
            "Josef A" josefnet@gmail.com

Layer 2 protocol tunnelling only works with access ports or tunnel ports.

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat3560/12225see/scg/swtu
nnel.htm

On 3/27/07, Swan, Jay <jswan@sugf.com> wrote:
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> I have the following physical topology:
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> R3---SwA---SwB---R5
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> R3 and R5 are in access vlan 35 with "l2protocol-tunnel cdp" on the
> access ports.
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> If I configure the link between SwA and SwB in access vlan 35 with
> "l2protocol-tunnel cdp", everything works fine: R3 and R5 see each other
> as directly connected CDP neighbors. If I configure the link between SwA
> and SwB as a hard-coded 802.1q trunk, however, the link is err-disabled
> with an l2ptguard error.
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> I don't understand why this doesn't work with a trunk link. Thoughts?
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> Jay
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