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encapsulations: flexible-ethernet-services vs extended-vlan-bridge

  • 1.  encapsulations: flexible-ethernet-services vs extended-vlan-bridge

    Posted 10-17-2013 08:26

    Dear all regarding this subject im not sure about when using each encapsulation.

    Consider both followin configs:

     

    #####################this config:
      ae9 {
            flexible-vlan-tagging;
            encapsulation flexible-ethernet-services;
            unit 2 {
                encapsulation vlan-bridge;
                vlan-id 2;
            }
            unit 3 {
                encapsulation vlan-bridge;
                vlan-id 3;
            }
          
        }
    ######################is the same?
     ae9 {
    	encapsulation extended-vlan-bridge;
    	flexible-vlan-tagging;
    	unit 2 {
    	     vlan-id 2;
    	}
    	unit 3 {
    	     vlan-id 3;
    	}
         }

     what i understand is that using flexible-ethernet-service, i will be able to use different encapsulations for each logic units, instead extended-vlan-bridge is applied to all logical units, Im right?

    Im planning to set the same config on two or more interface and then bind them in the same bridge-domain with an irb interface, so ....
    Can I use any of the previous configs ? wich is better?

     

    btw , currently im running several routing instances

    I know I should declare the irb interfaces inside the routing instances where they are going to work, but what about the bride-domains ? should be declared in the same routing instance or can be declared global? 

     

    Thanks,

    Leo.