Displaying Protocol Information; Tunneling (Vmans) - Extreme Networks ExtremeWare XOS Guide Manual

Displaying Protocol Information

To display protocol information, use the following command:
show protocol {<name>}
This command displays protocol information, which includes:
show
Protocol name
●
Type
●
Value
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Tunneling (VMANs)

You can "tunnel" any number of 802.1Q and/or Cisco ISL VLANs into a single VLAN that can be
switched through an Extreme Ethernet infrastructure. A given tunnel is completely isolated from other
tunnels or VLANs. For the MAN provider, the tagging numbers and methods used by the customer are
transparent to the provider.
You establish a private path through the public network using the Extreme Networks VMAN feature,
which creates a bidirectional virtual data connection. A given tunnel switches Layer 2 traffic; the
specified tunnel traffic is completely isolated from other traffic or tunnels. This feature is useful in
building transparent private networks, or VMANs, that provide point-to-point or point-to-multipoint
connectivity across an Ethernet infrastructure. Using encapsulation, the routing nodes in the public
network are unaware that the transmission is part of a VMAN connection.
To use the VMAN feature, you configure an encapsulation for all the traffic on the specified VMAN.
The encapsulation allows the VMAN traffic to be switched over an Layer 2 infrastructure. To
encapsulate the packet, the system adds a VMAN header that forms an outer VLAN header to the
Ethernet frame. The traffic is switched through the infrastructure based on the VMAN header. The
egress port of the entire VMAN removes the VMAN header, and the frame proceeds through the rest of
the network with the original VLAN header.
VMAN is enabled on the ports in the tunnel. When VMAN is enabled on a network port, that port adds
the VMAN tag to all ingressing frames, whether the frame is originally tagged or untagged. The
Ethernet type configured for the VMAN header applies to the entire switch; this value cannot be
configured per port. The default VMAN Ethernet type on Extreme devices is 88a8.
NOTE
On the Aspen 8810 switch, you cannot configure both VLANs and VMANs on the same slot; all ports on each slot
must belong exclusively to either VLANs or VMANs. If you do configure both VLANs and VMANs on the same slot,
the system returns an error message. The VMAN can span multiple modules, but you cannot configure VLANs and
VMANs on the same module.
If your VMAN transits a third-party device (other than an Extreme Networks device), you must
configure the EtherType for the VMAN tag as 8100 for third-party switches (or as the Ethernet type that
the third-party device uses).
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