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[Xavier Jeannin <>]

Hello

We would like to test the system as a stand alone machine.
This work is made in the context of performance assessment.

I do not want to disturb your development. Maybe we should book the 
POZNAN router for a specific date to make our test ?

Regards
Xavier

Le 01/06/2022 à 11:53, mc36 a écrit :
> hi,
> if it was a standalone switch then yess, but as we're playing with 
> stack/multichassis/linecard-based/whatever we call it for a while,
> the backplane stuff alone involves mpls because regular bridging is 
> expressed internally as vpls (and basic routing as mpls vpn)...
> where the inner label is the regular service label and the outer label 
> is identifying a member of the stack...
> br,
> cs
>
> On 6/1/22 11:42, Xavier Jeannin wrote:
> > Hello Csaba,
> >
> > What about "profile-renater-peering-l2.p4" and 
> > "profile-renater-peering-l2.tmpl" ?
> > Can we use it form bridging performance test ?
> >
> > Regards
> > Xavier
> >
> > Le 01/06/2022    10:06, mc36 a   crit  :
> > > hi,
> > > two things:
> > > 1) the lab was recently reconfigured to be a stack of 
> > > poz-bud-fra-ams...
> > >      if you want to configure any ports of these four, please 
> > > perform it at
> > >      netops@rare-bastion-86-7968c4d54f-qkv2x:~$ ctrl-rare
> > > 2) the current active profile is geant-testbed at all of these which
> > >      does not include bridging... you can set the profile individually,
> > >      let's say just on POZ0001#tna-set-profile <capitalized name from>
> > > https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/projects/RARE/repos/rare/browse/profiles, 
> > >
> > >      but, right now, we don't have anything with bridging and mpls 
> > > both enabled...
> > >      i'll add a vpls profile asap but i'll take some time until it 
> > > goes through
> > >      the release processes... (imho it should be out by next monday...)
> > > br,
> > > cs
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 6/1/22 09:51, Tomasz Szewczyk wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to make RFC2889 address learning/caching tests on poz-rare
> > > >
> > > > I have bridge defined with ports:
> > > > POZ0001#show bridge 3
> > > > packet                             byte
> > > > iface                     fwd         phys     tx     rx drop     
> > > > tx     rx     drop grp
> > > > brprt bvi
> > > > sdn4                         true     true     0 0         
> > > > 0                 0         0 0
> > > > sdn6                         true     true     0 0         
> > > > 0                 0         0 0
> > > > sdn7                         true     true     0 0         
> > > > 0                 0         0 0
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > packet byte
> > > > addr     iface     static     time       tx     rx drop     tx     
> > > > rx     drop
> > > >
> > > > But there's no traffic.
> > > > Interfaces are configred this way:
> > > >
> > > > POZ0001#sh run int sdn4
> > > > interface sdn4
> > > >      description POZ0001@31/0 -> SPIRENT@PSCN-#1
> > > >      mtu 2000
> > > >      macaddr 0031.645a.1c09
> > > >      lldp enable
> > > >      cdp enable
> > > >      bridge-group 3
> > > >      no shutdown
> > > >      no log-link-change
> > > >      exit
> > > > !
> > > >
> > > > Do I need any specific configuration for that?
> > > >      I'm sending just untagged frames from the tester.
> > > >
> > > > br
> > > > Tomek
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Xavier JEANNIN
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