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MPLS Labels and VLAN Tags coexistence

  • From: Paul Langille <langille@CrescentNetworks.com>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:13:41 -0400
  • CC: "'mpls@UU.NET'" <mpls@UU.NET>
  • Organization: Crescent Networks


    Hi Rana

Rana Dayal wrote:

> Is it OK to have both an IEEE VLAN Tag and MPLS labels in the same Ethernet
> frame?

Yes.

> This would mean that the first Ethertype value would indicate that
> the VLAN tag was present and then MPLS would be indicated by the second
> Ethertype.

Yes, correct. (Check out section 5 of draft-ietf-mpls-label-encaps-07.txt.)

        Paul

>
>
> Thanks,
> Rana

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