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What's needed to span VLANs across point to point?

John Blakley
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I need to find out what is required to be able to send vlan traffic across a point to point link.

Site A (Vlan 100) -> P2P Link (25Miles) -> (Vlan 100) Site B

Thanks!

John

HTH, John *** Please rate all useful posts ***
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trippi
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A transparent LAN from your ISP or a 7200 series router on each end with Layer 2 transport configured

Joseph W. Doherty
Hall of Fame
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Assuming the p2p requires serial interfaces, using routers on both ends of the p2p link but configured for bridging, might work for you.

How could I bridge the connection?

HTH, John *** Please rate all useful posts ***

Don't see bridging offen across routers, because if you have routers, often better to route. It has been quite a while since I've even seen an actual router bridge configuration, so unable to provide a current example or better advice, but I did try to find you some additional information, see below.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk815/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094663.shtml

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_0/ibm/configuration/guide/bctb.html

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk621/technologies_tech_note09186a00801c137e.shtml

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk331/tk660/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094471.shtml

Jon Marshall
Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame

Another alternative is to look at L2TPv3 -

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns341/ns396/ns172/ns155/networking_solutions_white_paper09186a008017fa6e.shtml

Not all routers/IOS versions/feature sets support it so it would be worth checking on Feature Navigator

http://tools.cisco.com/ITDIT/CFN/jsp/index.jsp

Jon

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