Jeff - I know how it's done! ;-) Regards, Wayne A. Lawson II - CCIE #5244 (R&S) Founder, President & CEO - IPexpert, Inc., Proctor Labs, Inc. & Platinum Solutions Group, LLC. Mailto: wlaw...@ipexpert.com Telephone: +1.810.334.1564 eFax: +1.810.454.0244
::Message sent from iPhone Connect @ www.WayneLawson.com. On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Jeff Garvas <j...@cia.net> wrote: > > After having the chance to attend the IPX 5 day bootcamp (amazing > experience!) I've been trying to figure out how they accomplished something. > Those of you who have been there will know what I'm talking about, but for > those of you who have not imagine this. The phones on your desk are powered > by a local switch (or so I assume) but they're effectively plugged into your > pods to the point that the MAC addresses appear on your pods in Michigan > while you're sitting in San Jose or Columbus. This is probably exactly the > same thing you'd see in the lab regardless of where you sit I would imagine. > (Where the MAC of the phone in front of you shows up in the respective > devices thousands of miles away) > > So how did they do that? > > I've sat here trying to come up with a 1:1 L2 bridge solution, maybe l2tp, or > maybe some kind of per-port GRE tunnel and I keep running into limitations of > the ipbase IOS I need to upgrade.. The answer is probably quite easy and I'm > just missing it or over analyzing it. > > The first reason I'm asking is because I'm trying to find a way to simulate > it for studying purposes. I have a 3750 at my desk and a 3750 in a cabinet > with a trunk between them across a single ethernet connection and I'd like to > hang phones off that local 3750 for POE and use the remote 3750 to "patch" > into the back of BR2, the back of BR1, etc. I'm not trying to extend a > simple vlan as much as I'm trying to make it appear as if each phone is > plugged into its respective BR/HQ interface when in fact its not. > > The second reason is because it's driving me nuts that I can't figure out how > they did it on my own. Anyone know the trick or have ideas? > > -Jeff > > > Oh, and this is why you should rent rack time from proctorlabs. You spend > too much time goofing around with your lab gear working on totally unrelated > concepts unless you're thinking of taking the R/S later. > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com
