04-14-2021 12:49 PM
Hi Cisco people,
I've just inherited a Cisco L2 device running IOS XR 6.6.12. This switch has a bundle connection to another identical switch. I see this subinterface on the switch-to-switch bundle connection in the running config:
interface Bundle-Ether3.1000 l2transport description vlan 1000 to other switch encapsulation dot1q 1000 second-dot1q 123
I understand enough to know that the the above allows all traffic tagged with VLAN 1000 across the Bundle. Easy enough. But what is that "second-dot1q" VLAN 123? Is that a double-tagged VLAN? The "?" menu isn't much help:
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:SW-1#conf t RP/0/RP0/CPU0:SW-1(config)#interface Bundle-Ether3.1000 l2transport RP/0/RP0/CPU0:SW-1(config-subif)#encapsulation dot1q 1000 ? , <comma> exact Do not allow further inner tags ingress Perform MAC-based matching second-dot1q IEEE 802.1Q VLAN-tagged packets <cr> RP/0/RP0/CPU0:SW-1(config-subif)#encapsulation dot1q 1000
I'm not a Layer 2 guy, so I'm not sure what "IEEE 802.1Q VLAN-tagged packets" could mean here. What is VLAN 123's relationship to VLAN 1000 in my example? What traffic will be permitted across the bundle with this config? Thank you!
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04-14-2021 01:01 PM
The second tag is for Q-in-Q vlan traffic.
see link below for more info:
https://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/lanswitch/configuration/guide/lsw_ieee_802.1q.html
HTH
04-14-2021 01:01 PM
The second tag is for Q-in-Q vlan traffic.
see link below for more info:
https://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/lanswitch/configuration/guide/lsw_ieee_802.1q.html
HTH
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