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Service Provider Bridging
Overview
Service Provider Bridging is composed of VLAN Stacking, Layer 2 Protocol
Tunneling, and Provider Backbone Bridging as described in the
FTOS Configuration
Guide
Service Provider Bridging chapter.
This chapter includes CLI information for FTOS Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling (L2PT).
L2PT enables protocols to tunnel through an 802.1q tunnel.
L2PT is supported by FTOS on all Dell Force10 systems as indicated by the
characters that appear below each command heading:
e E-Series, c C-Series,
s S-Series, , or .
L2PT is supported on E-Series ExaScale
e
x
with FTOS 8.2.1.0. and later.
Refer to Chapter 56, VLAN Stacking or Chapter 52, Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
and Chapter 19, GARP VLAN Registration (GVRP) for further information related
to those features.
Commands
The L2PT commands are:
• debug protocol-tunnel
• protocol-tunnel
• protocol-tunnel destination-mac
• protocol-tunnel enable
• protocol-tunnel rate-limit
• show protocol-tunnel
Important Points to Remember
• L2PT is enabled at the interface VLAN-Stack VLAN level. For details on
Stackable VLAN (VLAN-Stacking) commands, refer to Chapter 56, VLAN
Stacking.