Alcatel-Lucent 6850-48 Network Guide

VLAN Stacking Specifications

Configuring VLAN Stacking

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OmniSwitch AOS Release 6 Network Configuration Guide

IEEE Standards Supported

IEEE 802.1Q, 2003 Edition, IEEE Standards for Local 
and metropolitan area networks—Virtual Bridged 
Local Area Networks
P802.1ad/D6.0 (C/LM) Standard for Local and Met-
ropolitan Area Networks - Virtual Bridged Local Area 
Networks - Amendment 4: Provider Bridges

Platforms Supported

OmniSwitch 6400, 6850, 6855, and 9000

Maximum number of SVLANs 

4093 (VLAN 2 through 4094)

Features not supported on VLAN Stacking ports

Group Mobility, Authentication, and L3 Routing

SVLAN administrative and Span-
ning Tree status.

Enabled

IPMVLAN administrative and Span-
ning Tree status.

ethernet-service ipmvlan

Enabled

Vendor TPID and legacy BPDU sup-
port for STP or GVRP on a VLAN 
Stacking network port.

TPID = 0x8100
legacy STP BPDU = dropped.
legacy GVRP BPDU = dropped.

Acceptable frame types on a VLAN 
Stacking user port.

None.

Traffic engineering profile attributes 
for a VLAN Stacking Service Access 
Point (SAP).

ingress bandwidth = shared
ingress bandwidth mbps = 0
CVLAN tag is preserved.
SVLAN priority mapping = 0

Treatment of customer STP and 
GVRP frames ingressing on a VLAN 
Stacking user port.

STP frames are tunneled.
GVRP frames are tunneled. 
802.1x frames are discarded.
802.1ab frames are discarded.
802.3ad frames are processed.
AMAP frames are discarded.