Re: [j-nsp] NSRP through 802.1Q trunks

2008-07-16 Thread Stefan Fouant
You'll be fine as long as you are not expecting the Netscreen to tag the frames. Otherwise, the HA interfaces (or pseudo-HA interfaces that you've designated as such) look like regular Ethernet interfaces, so as long as you've got a normal Ethernet handoff with end-to-end L2 connectivity between

Re: [j-nsp] NSRP through 802.1Q trunks

2008-07-16 Thread Ivan c
Doesn't seem to be the case though, even though logic would dictate that the switch should just pass the frames I am starting to suspect that the Nortel do not recognise the frames and thus are dropping it, as the HA interface MAC only appears on the access port and not on the trunk port.

[j-nsp] NSRP through 802.1Q trunks

2008-07-15 Thread Ivan c
Hey, anyone have any experience with running active/passive NSRP betwen datacentres via 802.1Q trunks? specially through Nortel 5520 switches? I can't find any specific info on NSRP protocol requirements, only from the screenos cookbook, which states The only requirement is that the Layer 2