Re: If service provider insists being root for common vlans

From: Wink (dwinkworth@wi.rr.com)
Date: Thu May 17 2007 - 19:55:52 ART


The solution is to terminate the ethernet service with a router.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Gibson" <johngibson1541@yahoo.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: If service provider insists being root for common vlans running
PVST, and our local manager insists being root for local vlans running MST.
Solution exists ?

> Actually, for the 3rd paragraph, I originally
> thought about the service provider insists
> no local secret vlans allowed. They have to
> have the vlan numbers of our local vlans and
> the join points be trunks. Then our local
> manager insists no complicated MAC filtering.
>
>
>
> --- John Gibson <johngibson1541@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I know when a MST domain is adjunct to a PVST
>> domain,
>> either MST has to take over all vlans' root or
>> PVST has to take over all vlans' root.
>>
>> When the service provider and our local manger
>> contend for their ideas, I can think of 1 solution
>> is to make the joint points access-ports. This way
>> service provider is not aware of our local vlans.
>> We don't send BPDUs to service provider and neither
>> do they send us BPDUs. And we manually keep the
>> common vlans free of looping in our domain.
>>
>> However, if our manager also insists the join points
>> trunk ports. Is there a solution? I think there is
>> - MAC filtering. However, if our local manager
>> insists again no complicated MAC filtering. What
>> can we do ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
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