...now for a little bit of a distraction... >>>>>>>Sent from a Apple Newton
Every time I see the above tag line on Gino's email... I cannot help but crack a smile... now how many folks know what an Apple Newton was ? Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, Fl 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Helpdesk: 305 663 5518 option 2 Email: supp...@snappydsl.net On 10/13/2012 11:33 AM, Gino Villarini wrote: > It can be done with Mk and Canopy, both support qinq > > Sent from a Apple Newton > > > On Oct 13, 2012, at 11:29 AM, "Tim Densmore" <tdensm...@tarpit.cybermesa.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Fred, >> >> I think a lot of the confusion here comes from the fact that you're >> using generic terms like "switching" and "VLAN" to describe complex >> Metro-E/Carrier-E scenarios. Standard VLANs break up broadcast domains, >> but they don't create virtual circuits or provide total isolation - this >> is one of the reasons I initially asked what you were describing. >> Metro-e q-in-q with stag/ctag UNIs and EVCs behave much differently than >> standard packet switched ethernet "dot1q" VLANs in that regard. I'd >> reference the different metro-e IEEE standards if I were smart enough to >> keep them all in my head or unlazy enough to look them up. >> >> Tons of info available at metroethernetforum.org for folks who are >> trying to figure out what I'm talking about. >> >> I'd be extremely impressed to learn that you could do a decent metro-e >> roll-out with ubnt and mt. In the WISP world, I'd expect single-tagged >> dot1q VLANs to be enough to differentiate customer traffic, even in >> large-ish MPOP scenarios. How many POPs generally hang off a single >> network segment before hitting a router? >> >> Thanks for the interesting discussion! >> >> TD >> >> On 10/12/2012 10:14 PM, Fred Goldstein wrote: >>> I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. It is allowing only >>> the VLAN to go from A to B, while nothing else goes to A or B, and the >>> VLAN is invisible to everyone else. Which is really virtual circuit >>> behavior; VLAN is the legacy name of the VC ID. >>> >>> In CE switching, then, the VLAN receives no broadcasts from anyone >>> else on the switch or network, and sends no broadcasts outside. What >>> goes onto that mapped port, or onto a VLAN pre-tagged to go to that >>> port, is totally and completely invisible to all other users. So it's >>> secure enough for public safety use on a shared PMD. This is >>> different from a bridge, where broadcasts go everywhere. One type of >>> MEF service (EP-LAN) does actually emulate a LAN with >2 ports and >>> broadcasts among them, but the more common EPL and EVPL would not know >>> a broadcast frame from anything else, since they just pass the MAC >>> addresses transparently. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wireless mailing list >> Wireless@wispa.org >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless