Fr Dlci To Vlan 802.1Q Local Switching-Bridged Interworking; Fr Dlci To Ethernet Port Atom-Bridged Interworking - Cisco 10000-2P2-2DC Software Configuration Manual

Ethernet/VLAN to Frame Relay Interworking
FR DLCI to VLAN 802.1Q Local Switching—Bridged Interworking
This interworking type provides interoperability between Frame Relay Attachment VC and Ethernet
VLAN Attachment VC connected to the same PE router. For this interworking type the Bridged
Encapsulation is used, corresponding to Bridged (Ethernet) Interworking mechanism.
In the case of an Ethernet VLAN attachment, the VLAN ID is a service delimiter, so the VLAN header
is not included in the frame to or from the FR CE.
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The protocol stack for FR to Ethernet local switching (bridged interworking) is shown in
FR DLCI to Ethernet Port AToM—Bridged Interworking
This interworking type provides interoperability between FR attachment VC and Ethernet attachment
VC connected to different PE routers. Bridged encapsulation is used, corresponding to the Bridged
(Ethernet) Interworking mechanism.
For an FR to Ethernet Port case, the interworking function is performed at the PE connected to the
FR attachment VC based on multiprotocol interconnect over Frame Relay
Interworking is implemented similar to an ATM-to-Ethernet case.
Figure 21-13
FR CE
The advantage of this architecture is that the Ethernet PE (connected to the Ethernet segment) operates
similarly to Ethernet like-to-like services: a pseudowire label is assigned to the Ethernet port and then
the remote Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) session distributes the labels to its peer PE. Ethernet
frames are carried through the MPLS network using Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS).
On the PE with Interworking function, in the direction from the FR segment to MPLS cloud, the bridged
encapsulation (FR/SNAP header) is discarded and the Ethernet frame is encapsulated with the labels
required to go through the pseudowire using the VC type 5 (Ethernet)
In the opposite direction, after the label disposition from the MPLS cloud, Ethernet frames are
encapsulated over FR using bridged encapsulation.
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In the VLAN to FR direction, the PE router discards the VLAN header from the Layer 2 packet. The
PE router sends the frame to the FR egress interface after encapsulating the L2 packet over FR using
Bridged encapsulation.
In the FR to VLAN direction, the FR header and bridged encapsulation are discarded and the
L2 packet is sent out with a VLAN header inserted, followed by the destination/source MAC
addresses.
Network Topology for FR to Ethernet AToM Bridged Interworking
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Figure 21-14 shows the protocol stack for FR to Ethernet Bridged Interworking.
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