[PWE3] RE: regarding port mode enet-mib

["David Zelig" <Davidz at corrigent.com>]

Rishi,

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Kulkarni, Hrishikesh (Hrishikesh) [mailto:hkulkarni at lucent.com]
>  Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 5:12 PM
>  To: David Zelig; pwe3 at ietf.org
>  Cc: tnadeau at cisco.com
>  Subject: regarding port mode enet-mib
>  
>  
>  Hi,
>  
>   in draft-ietf-pwe3-enet-mib-06.txt
>  
>  Quote
>    1a) In the typical application, the packet is sent to the 
>  PW as is: 
>     
>           pwEnetPwVlan        4097, 
>           pwEnetVlanMode      portMode, 
>           pwEnetPortVlan      4097, 
>           pwType              Ethernet, 
>  unQuote
>  
>  Query 1:
>    pwType could also be EthernetTagged with pwEnetVlanMode = 
>  portMode, 
>    wherein the port is receiving packets with Service delimiting tags,
>    and pw would carry them unchanged. is this understanding correct?
>  

DZ: if pwEnetVlanMode = portMode the VLAN fields for is not used (i.e. transparent) in the PE for service selection, so the term service delimiting tag is not applicable. I do not see any need to use pwType to be equal to EthernetTagged in this case.

>  
>  Thanks
>  Rishi
>  
>  

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