> 802.1ad does the "MAC hiding" you're talking about by defining different MAC > address spaces for the customer's interfaces and the service provider's > devices which is different than just stacking multiple tags with q-in-q.
802.1ad is really only standardized "QinQ" (with a different ethertype). I does not do MAC hiding and therefor has exactly the same scalability issues as QinQ. 802.1ah (PBB) does MAC hiding, both you need an ASR9k for that, not exactly a cheap bridging CPE... Lukas _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/