Layer 2 Tunneling.

http://blog.ine.com/2010/09/10/ine-ccie-voice-class-now-just-like-actual-ccie-voice-lab/

Regards,
Aman

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:24 AM, 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.
>
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