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Chapter 12 VLAN

12.5.4 VLAN Tag Format

A VLAN tag (service provider VLAN stacking or customer IEEE 802.1Q) consists of the following three fields.

Table 31 VLAN Tag Format

Type

Priority

VID

Type is a standard Ethernet type code identifying the frame and indicates that whether the frame carries IEEE 802.1Q tag information. SP TPID (Service Provider Tag Protocol Identifier) is the service provider VLAN stacking tag type. Many vendors use 0x8100 or 0x9100.

TPID (Tag Protocol Identifier) is the customer IEEE 802.1Q tag.

•If the VLAN stacking port role is Access, then the MES-2110 adds the SP TPID tag to all incoming frames on the service provider's edge devices (1 and 2 in the VLAN stacking example figure).

•If the VLAN stacking port role is Tunnel, then the MES-2110 only adds the SP TPID tag to all incoming frames on the service provider's edge devices (1 and 2 in the VLAN stacking example figure) that have an SP TPID different to the one configured on the MES-2110. (If an incoming frame’s SP TPID is the same as the one configured on the MES-2110, then the MES-2110 will not add the tag.)

Priority refers to the IEEE 802.1p standard that allows the service provider to prioritize traffic based on the class of service (CoS) the customer has paid for.

•On the MES-2110, configure priority level of inner IEEE 802.1Q tag in the Configuration > QoS Menu > 802.1p Priority screen.

•"0" is the lowest priority level and "7" is the highest.

VID is the VLAN ID. SP VID is the VID for the second (service provider’s) VLAN tag.

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