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TrivialPants · 07-30-2025

Hey everyone - had a question about dot1q tunnel. I am trying to wrap my head around it for a customer handoff on a 3560 device, which hands off on a l2vpn between two nodes on my MPLS. The one end is at a branch of the customers, we are hoping to ad...

TrivialPants · 02-04-2025

Hi All,I am installing a new Nexus VPC switch that uplinks from my core router. It will aggregate handoffs from a Bundle-ether interface. Currently the Nexus switch has different access ports that take untagged or trunked traffic based on different V...

TrivialPants · 05-10-2024

Hi All,I am doing some testing for a migration from a 7604 MPLS PE with handoffs to a 7604 acting as an edge router. Each circuit on the PE router is just an untagged attachment circuit like this:interface GigabitEthernet2/8description MPLS Attachmen...

TrivialPants · 01-18-2024

Hi All,We are working with a vendor to set up a TrustGrid appliance. We have an FTD pair in HA mode that is managed via FMC. We are migrating the vendor's current network from an existing IPSec tunnel to the TrustGrid appliance based firewall. The ne...

TrivialPants · 02-17-2023

Hi Community,I am seeing some issues when attempting to migrate some l2vpn circuits from IOS XE to IOS XR. The layout is as follows:(INT VLAN 1) ---- [IOS CPE 3650 CX] ---- (int gi0/1/1, service instance 1 ethernet encapsulation dot1q untagged) [IOS ...

TrivialPants · 04-08-2025

Okay perfect! This helps a bunch! I will use VPC domain 2 for the new switch with a different keep alive /30 IP address on a different VRF. the existing VPC, I will use the existing link and VLAN as well as just VPC domain 1.

TrivialPants · 04-07-2025

Thank you when we are configuring the VPC on the old & new, do we need to use a different /30 IP for the new & old VPC keep alive and domain #? Or is that all local to each switch? Example: VPC pair 2 has this VPC config:vpc domain 1role priority 30...

TrivialPants · 05-13-2024

I will explain a bit more detail of how it is currently set up:Customer CPE:Untagged switch (but capable of management). Some customer locations have a management VLAN, but the data VLAN is untagged still. The trunk from the customer CPE uplinks to a...

TrivialPants · 03-09-2023

Thanks @filopeter @diefierr @MHM Cisco World for your help. I will give these options a try and come back the post with my results.I appreciate your time!

TrivialPants · 03-09-2023

Thanks for the reply. In our case, since we have the Nexus VPC switch between our CPE and P router, I suppose we would also need to block BPDUs on that port, too right? It is running rstp, can we just block on the single VLAN?Thanks!

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