Hi Group,

Well I have a slight confession to make. When I initially asked the question,
it was based on the assumption that Cisco provided this. But they don't.
I had played with bridging over frame relay way back, and somehow this
became GRE in my mind. Sorry about the mistake.

So now im looking into L2TP as an alternative.

But the One-Access 1221 & 1424 are supporting ethernet over GRE.


Kind Regards,
Peter Krupl



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Derick Winkworth
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 4:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [j-nsp] GRE & Bridging, is it possible with a Juniper box ?

This sounds like what Cisco is doing with OTV.  They are using ethernet over 
GRE w/multicast to transport ethernet... It is being marketed as a better 
alternative to VPLS.



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From: Pekka Savola <[email protected]>
To: Patrik Olsson <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, June 3, 2010 4:59:26 AM
Subject: Re: [j-nsp] GRE & Bridging, is it possible with a Juniper box ?

On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Patrik Olsson wrote:
> Have you tried looking for L2TP with PPP over BCP intestead PPP over IPCP?
> 
> If you want to encapsulate the whole ethernetframe and send over a GRE
> tunnel so you get a bridged enviroment, is it called Ethernet over IP
> (EOIP). Dont remeber the rfc, but is not supported by Juniper. Only
> supported by a small Latvian vendor I think...

I wonder if you refer to rfc3378.  I recall support for it was recently added 
in Linux as well.

But I don't see why encapsulaitng whole ethernet frames in GRE could not work 
if vendors just chose to support it.  Then as 'ether type' in GRE header you 
could put 0x6558 or 0x8100 (IEEE 802.1q VLAN-tagged frames *). The former is 
also supported in Linux [http://lwn.net/Articles/303062/]

*) http://www.iana.org/assignments/ethernet-numbers

-- Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
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