Alcatel-Lucent 6850-48 Network Guide

Configuring VLAN Stacking

Configuring VLAN Stacking Services

OmniSwitch AOS Release 6 Network Configuration Guide

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Configuring a VLAN Stacking Ethernet service requires several steps. These steps are outlined here and 
further described throughout this section. For a brief tutorial on configuring a VLAN Stacking service, see 

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1 Create an SVLAN. An SVLAN is associated to a VLAN Stacking service to carry customer or 
provider traffic. In addition, an SVLAN may also distribute IP multicast traffic, if it is configured as an IP 
multicast VLAN (IPMVLAN). See 

2 Create a VLAN Stacking service. A service name is associated with an SVLAN to identify the 
customer traffic that the SVLAN will carry through the provider network. See 

3 Configure Network Network Interface (NNI) ports. An NNI port is associated with an SVLAN and 
carries the encapsulated SVLAN traffic through the provider network. See 

4 Configure a VLAN Stacking service access point (SAP). A SAP binds UNI ports, the type of 
customer traffic, and traffic engineering parameter attributes to the VLAN Stacking service. Each SAP is 
associated to one service name, but a single service can have multiple SAPs to which it is associated. See 

5 Configure User Network Interface (UNI) ports. One or more UNI ports are associated with a SAP to 
identify to the service which ports will receive customer traffic that the service will process for tunneling 
through the provider network. When a UNI port is associated with a SAP, the SAP parameter attributes 
are applied to traffic received on the UNI port. See 

6 Associate CVLAN traffic with an SAP. This step specifies the type of traffic customer traffic that is 
allowed on UNI ports and then tunneled through the SVLAN. The type of customer traffic is associated 
with a SAP and applies to all UNI ports associated with the same SAP. See 

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7 Define SAP profile attributes. A SAP profile contains traffic engineering attributes for specifying 
bandwidth sharing, rate limiting, CVLAN translation or double-tagging, and priority bit mapping. A 
default profile is automatically associated with a SAP at the time the SAP is created. As a result, it is only 
necessary to configure a SAP profile if the default attribute values are not sufficient. See 

8 Define UNI profile attributes. A default UNI profile is automatically assigned to a UNI port at the 
time a port is configured as a VLAN Stacking UNI. This profile determines how control frames received 
on the port are processed. It is only necessary to configure a UNI profile if the default attribute values are 
not sufficient. See 

The following table provides a summary of commands used in these procedures: