Re: [nznog] UFB Upload Issues

Hi Brent, Coming from an ALU background that’s my understanding of it also. Providers with ALU based subscriber termination (7750’s etc) are probably unlikely to see this occur. This reminds me of the good old days where mixing different vendors in a deployment would have all sorts of fun unintended ‘quirks’ (Spanning tree issues or LACP flapping, anyone??) If we lived in a perfect world all vendors manufactured hardware compliant with open standards then would never have issues, but then where would the fun be? Cheers, Lance HD NET From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Brent Marquis Sent: Thursday, 9 October 2014 1:02 p.m. To: Dave Mill; Don Stokes Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] UFB Upload Issues Hi Dave, Don, Yes, Don is correct. However, our handover is an 802.1ad interface. In .1ad CFI==DEI My understanding is that this is regardless of SVID ethertype (which is selectable by RSPs when a handover is ordered) it is still an 802.1ad interface. Alternatively - an RSP requesting us to change the SVID ethertype, doesn’t stop our interface from being 802.1ad. I’m probably getting on some shaky ground here, but that is certainly how it appears to work on ALU’s implementation. If I’m wrong above, I’m happy to go back to ALU for clarification, etc. Cheers, Brent Brent Marquis | Layer 2 Network Specialist Chorus | T : +6448964169 | M :+64272290923 From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Dave Mill Sent: Thursday, 9 October 2014 12:14 p.m. To: Don Stokes Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz mailto:nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] UFB Upload Issues Hi Don We are using 0x8100 as the outer TPID in all cases for UFB. We're not certain at the moment if our equipment is dropping this traffic or if a provider could be. We have a bit of work to do to establish this still. Would be interested to see Brent's thoughts on this on or off list :) Cheers Dave On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Don Stokes mailto:don(a)daedalus.co.nz > wrote: On 09/10/14 09:43, Brent Marquis wrote: (stuff about CFI/DEI=1 traffic being dropped by Certain Hardware Vendors) Quick question: are the handovers where this problem is occurring using tag type 88a8 or 8100? If it's using 8100, then the bit should be interpreted as CFI, whereas if it's using 88a8 it should be treated as DEI. Thus, if the type is 88a8, the DEI bit should be treated as such, and equipment that unconditionally drops DEI=1 traffic is Broken And Needs To Be Fixed. On the other hand, if an 8100 tagged handover is not clearing CFI, it's that end that is Behaving Badly and should be fixed. A box dropping CFI=1 traffic on traffic received with a tag type of 8100 is behaving "correctly". -- don _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz mailto:NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog This communication, including any attachments, is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mis-transmission or error. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002.