Accton Technology ES3528M-SFP manual Enabling QinQ Tunneling on the Switch

3 Configuring the Switch

Configuration Limitations for QinQ

•The native VLAN of uplink ports should not be used as the SPVLAN. If the SPVLAN is the uplink port's native VLAN, the uplink port must be an untagged member of the SPVLAN. Then the outer SPVLAN tag will be stripped when the packets are sent out. Another reason is that it causes non-customer packets to be forwarded to the SPVLAN.

•Static trunk port groups are compatible with QinQ tunnel ports as long as the QinQ configuration is consistent within a trunk port group.

•The native VLAN (VLAN 1) is not normally added to transmitted frames. Avoid using VLAN 1 as an SPVLAN tag for customer traffic to reduce the risk of misconfiguration. Instead, use VLAN 1 as a management VLAN instead of a data VLAN in the service provider network.

•There are some inherent incompatibilities between Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching:

-Tunnel ports do not support IP Access Control Lists.

-Layer 3 Quality of Service (QoS) and other QoS features containing Layer 3 information are not supported on tunnel ports.

-Spanning tree bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) filtering is automatically disabled on a tunnel port.

General Configuration Guidelines for QinQ

1.Configure the switch to QinQ mode (see “Enabling QinQ Tunneling on the Switch” on page 3-170).

2.Set the Tag Protocol Identifier (TPID) value of the tunnel access port. This step is required if the attached client is using a nonstandard 2-byte ethertype to identify 802.1Q tagged frames. The default ethertype value is 0x8100. (See “Adding an Interface to a QinQ Tunnel” on page 3-172.)

3.Create a Service Provider VLAN, also referred to as an SPVLAN (see “Creating VLANs” on page 3-161).

4.Configure the QinQ tunnel access port to 802.1Q Tunnel mode (see “Adding an Interface to a QinQ Tunnel” on page 3-172).

5.Configure the QinQ tunnel access port to join the SPVLAN as an untagged member (see “Adding Static Members to VLANs (VLAN Index)” on page 3-162).

6.Configure the SPVLAN ID as the native VID on the QinQ tunnel access port (see “Configuring VLAN Behavior for Interfaces” on page 3-165).

7.Configure the QinQ tunnel uplink port to 802.1Q Tunnel Uplink mode (see “Adding an Interface to a QinQ Tunnel” on page 3-172).

8.Configure the QinQ tunnel uplink port to join the SPVLAN as a tagged member (see “Adding Static Members to VLANs (VLAN Index)” on page 3-162).

Enabling QinQ Tunneling on the Switch

The switch can be configured to operate in normal VLAN mode or IEEE 802.1Q (QinQ) tunneling mode which is used for passing Layer 2 traffic across a service provider’s metropolitan area network. You can also globally set the Tag Protocol

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