It isn’t a high bandwidth situation to be honest. Normally I would NOT do this – this is a special case and it saves the company quite a bit of money. Like, more than my salary for a few years. =-)
The problem is the particular site they have decided to do this at is slightly abnormal from all of my other sites. That being the case – I’ve got a little weirdness. So, is a GRE solution easier and better than my VPN solution? -Mike From: Matt Hill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 3:38 PM To: Michael Lipsey Cc: Joe Astorino; [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Routing a VLAN between sites That sounds rather odd. Two distinct sites in the same subnet? Apart from the tunneling already mentioned, I hope you have mammoth bandwidth because all your servers/hosts will think they are on the same LAN! If you do, I am sure you can ask the ISP to provide the tunneling for you. Ask for l2 VPN ax opposed to l3 VPN. Sent from my iPhone On 03/11/2009, at 10:32, "Michael Lipsey" <[email protected]> wrote: The goal I’ve been told to meet is that VLAN X in location Y must also exist in Location Z. Same subnet, etc. The two locations are interconnected via IP. I’ve looked at all I can think to look at regarding GRE tunnels but the whole ‘transport of a vlan’ over one just has not jumped up and bit me yet. So any links you can provide (Adam) to get me in that direction would be helpful. Like I mentioned earlier, I know about L2TPv3 but can’t use it due to code limitations on these 6500s. Unfortunately right now a code upgrade isn’t going to work. My other option is to simply implement a VPN between the sites with the users plugging into a vlan I make up over there and then VPN them over to location Y and do a translation to get them where they need to be. It’s actually pretty simple to set that up and I’m reasonably sure that it will meet all the needs. Right now I’m trying to remember where in the Docs the ‘tunnels’ are… -Mike From: Joe Astorino [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 3:25 PM To: Michael Lipsey Cc: Adam Frederick; [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Routing a VLAN between sites What exactly do you mean "provide access to" ??? If you just need people at the other site to be able to access devices on that VLAN simple routing will do just fine. If you want devices on both sides to be part of the same actual layer 2 broadcast domain, that is a job for something like L2TPv3 like you said. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Michael Lipsey <[email protected]> wrote: Between the two sites I would consider it ‘IP’ as far as the logical topology. The actual topology is that we have an ISP that provides us connectivity between sites via their MPLS cloud. We are completely CE however. -Mike From: Adam Frederick [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 2:52 PM To: Michael Lipsey Subject: RE: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Routing a VLAN between sites What is between the 2 sites? (I.e. WAN, Fiber, Internet) _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Lipsey Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 5:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Routing a VLAN between sites I’ve got a little situation in my production environment. I’ve got a VLAN at one location that I need to provide access to from another location. Basically I need to tunnel the VLAN over IP. It is IP between both sites and the two end points are 6500s running 12.2.SX code. I had been looking into L2TPv3 but my code doesn’t appear to support that. Any other ideas? Thought this might be a good place to ask… -mike CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This electronic transmission (including files attached hereto) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, dissemination, copying, distribution or taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this confidential information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please destroy it and immediately notify us by return email. Thank you. _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com -- Regards, Joe Astorino CCIE #24347 (R&S) Sr. Technical Instructor - IPexpert Mailto: [email protected] Telephone: +1.810.326.1444 Live Assistance, Please visit: www.ipexpert.com/chat eFax: +1.810.454.0130 IPexpert is a premier provider of Classroom and Self-Study Cisco CCNA (R&S, Voice & Security), CCNP, CCVP, CCSP and CCIE (R&S, Voice, Security & Service Provider) Certification Training with locations throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. Be sure to check out our online communities at www.ipexpert.com/communities and our public website at www.ipexpert.com _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com
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