EtherHaul Operation, Administration and Maintenance Manual
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8
Ethernet Services Configuration and Monitoring
The Ethernet services (VLAN) parameters and monitoring are managed in the
Services
page.
This chapter includes the following topics:
Default Bridge Configuration
Bridge Architecture
General
o
VLANs
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Port Network Type
o
Bridge-Port (PVID)
Maintenance
Statistics
CLI Commands
Advanced Ethernet Networking Configurations
8.1
Default Bridge Configuration
The default system’s configuration is IEEE 802.1d Transparent Bridge. In this mode, all
traffic (both tagged and untagged) is transparently forwarded between all ports and
over the radio.
In addition, management VLAN can be used for out-of-band and in-band management.
The transparent bridge mode uses a simplified bridge configuration for simple and easy
deployments. It is very useful in 2 cases:
Simple LAN extension solution is required.
First setup to enable links establishment including services flow.
8.2
Bridge Architecture
The EtherHaul incorporates a fully functional integrated Provider Bridge (IEEE 802.1ad).
Provider Bridge, commonly known as Q in Q, extends the IEEE 802.1Q standard by
providing for a second stack of VLANs in a bridged network. The general purpose of
Provider Bridge is to enable frames from multiple customers to be forwarded (or
tunneled) through another topology (provider network) using Service VLANs (S -VLAN).
The provider bridge, which may consist of multiple devices in the service provider
domain, looks like a simple bridge port to the customer’s traffic and maintains the
Customer’s VLANs (C-VLAN).
