Mac-in-mac frame forwarding – H3C Technologies H3C S12500 Series Switches User Manual

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Figure 77

shows the format of a MAC-in-MAC frame.

Table 22

describes some key fields in the frame.

Table 22 Some key fields of a MAC-in-MAC frame

Field Full

name

Description

B-DA

Backbone destination MAC address

Destination B-MAC, outer destination MAC address in a
MAC-in-MAC frame. It is the MAC address of the BEB device

at the destination end of the PBBN tunnel. The combination of

B-DA and B-SA is B-MAC.

B-SA

Backbone source MAC address

Source B-MAC, outer source MAC address in a
MAC-in-MAC frame. It is the MAC address of the BEB device
at the source end of the PBBN tunnel. The combination of

B-DA and B-SA is B-MAC.

B-Tag

Backbone VLAN tag

Outer VLAN tag in a MAC-in-MAC frame. It indicates the
VLAN information and priority information of the frame

within the PBBN. The Tag Protocol Identifier (TPID) in the
B-tag is 0x8100.

I-Tag

Backbone service instance tag

Service identifier of a MAC-in-MAC frame. The I-tag contains

the backbone service instance priority code point (I-PCP) and
backbone service instance drop eligibility indicator (I-DEI) on

the BEB, backbone service instance identifier (I-SID), and the

C-DA and C-SA of the customer frame. The TPID of the I-tag is
0x88E7.

S-Tag

Service provider VLAN tag

Outer VLAN tag of the frame in the PBN, which indicates the
VLAN information and priority information of the frame

within the PBN.

C-Tag

Customer VLAN tag

Inner VLAN tag of the frame in the PBN, which indicates the
VLAN information and priority information of the frame

within the customer network.

For more information about TPID, see "Configuring VLANs."

MAC-in-MAC frame forwarding

Figure 78 MAC-in-MAC frame forwarding

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