RE: Bridging through GRE tunnel

From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2007 - 01:07:37 ART


Yeah,

Well where I go I discourage the use of TAC.

Follow the sun = re-educate a CCNA 3 times in one night on your issue... on
3 continents... then when your case arrives in Brussels the CCIE that gets
your case gives you about as much information as he is allowed to... think
Hanoi Jane Fonda and guys blinking morse code T O R T U R E

No thanks...

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Akhtar Rasool
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:59 PM
To: Brian Dennis
Cc: Sam Eckert; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Bridging through GRE tunnel

I agree with Brian on this & this thing is working well with some of our
customers. But Cisco TAC discourages the use of it, dont know the reason
why they do so !.

Regards,

Akhtar

On 10/4/07, Brian Dennis <bdennis@internetworkexpert.com> wrote:
>
> Rack1R1(config)#bridge 1 protocol ieee
> Rack1R1(config)#int tu 0
> Rack1R1(config-if)#bridge-group ?
> % Unrecognized command
> Rack1R1(config-if)#bridge-group 1
> % This command is an unreleased and unsupported feature
> Rack1R1(config-if)#
> *Mar 1 02:12:53.887:
> Note: A random Spanning Tree Bridge Identifier address of 0000.0c6b.ac00
> has been chosen for Bridge Group 1 since there is no mac address
> associated with the selected interface.
> *Mar 1 02:12:53.887:
> Ensure that this address is unique.
>
> Rack1R1(config-if)#do sho run int tu 0
> Building configuration...
>
> Current configuration : 56 bytes
> !
> interface Tunnel0
> no ip address
> bridge-group 1
> end
>
> Rack1R1(config-if)#
>
> HTH,
>
> Brian Dennis, CCIE4 #2210 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/SP)
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> On Oct 3, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Sam Eckert wrote:
>
> > I want to create a bridge using a GRE tunnel and not L2TPv3. How
> > can I do
> > this? The tunnel interface will not take the bridge group command.
> >
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