QinQ (inQ) Part 2

In the last post I set up a simple 802.1Q tunnel.  Now I'm going to expand on that and illustrate some of the more advanced Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling that you can do on top of that.

The following is not for the faint of heart.  You will be amazed, you will be confused.  You may cry, and you may jump for joy.  If you choose to go on, you have been warned.

Or something.

QinQ (inQ) Part 1

This week I added 3 x 3560's to my home lab.  I don't feel that overall I'm especially weak on the layer 2 topics, in fact I think quite the opposite is true.  However, access to 3560's for labbing purposes has always been a bit harder for me so I decided to buy three of them out of my own pocket to help with the preparation.  And besides, these are full layer 3 switches so I can also use them to help out with the routing topics as well.

So for anyone counting, that brings my lab to 3 x 1841, 3 x 3560, 1 x 2621xm and 1 x 2621.  I do also have a 2950 and a 3500xl, but those are at my office and I'm not currently using them for labbing. This should be enough for me to lab up any tech that I need to.

Seeing as how the 2560's are new to me I of course wanted to play with something on them that I haven't been able to do on my routers.  By a purely random selection that ended up being QinQ tunneling.

So without further ado here's an actual blog post!