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Unfortunately, this does not work well with multiple subscribers, since the AN100U/UX
needs to uniquely assign downstream traffic to each SF. If you're classifying based on
upstream source, and it's all coming from the same source, the AN100U/UX has to
"guess", and that is not the ideal solution.
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Option 2—If you have multiple SU's, and unknown hosts behind them, then you need
to enable VLAN tagging on the subscriber unit (ethTag in the subscriber unit's CLI).
This feature causes the subscriber unit to insert a VLAN tag onto each incoming
upstream packet, and strip that same tag from every downstream packet. On the
AN100U/UX, you can then classify based on this packet or VLAN tag. in the
downstream, thereby uniquely identifying traffic destined to each subscriber unit.
Classification in the upstream can be done using "wildcard" classifier where the MAC
destination is 00:00:00:00:00:00 with a mask of 00:00:00:00:00:00, indicating that all
destination MAC addresses are to be used.
Note
This solution requires that your network support VLANs upstream of the
AN100U/UX.
Figure 5-7
Example of Service Flow Classifiers with VLAN Tagging
Point-to-Point Pass-through Mode
The RedMAX system does not have a pass-through mode option available. It is designed
to be an access system with many registered subscribers operating simultaneously. In this
scenario, a point-to-point pass-through mode does not make any sense. The closest
