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02-07-2018 09:22 AM
02-07-2018 09:22 AM
Trunking Metro E?
My company has some gear that's on prem at our main office, and some at a colo datacenter across town. Currently they're connected via point to point VPN handled by the firewalls, however we're recently purchased a metro-e connection from our ISP (they also own the datacenter) and have a nice drop right into our rack.
2 questions:
1) do I have to encrypt the traffic between the two and run the metro-e over our firewalls
2) If I don't have to encrypt, can I trunk some switch ports to pass traffic? At the main office the "core" switch is a 5412 and at the datacenter it's a 2920
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02-07-2018 10:02 AM - edited 02-07-2018 10:05 AM
02-07-2018 10:02 AM - edited 02-07-2018 10:05 AM
Re: Trunking Metro E?
If (a big IF) it is really so you can think of it like a pure Layer 2 extension between your two sites and traffic encryption/firewalling/natting (or whatever you can think of about Layer 3) could/would be avoided...since the link can be defined as a Layer 2 uplink between Switches (eventually permits VLANs, if any).
Sound reasonable?
[*] sure some Fiber Optics/Copper Ethernet mediaconverters are there...to overcome copper Ethernet lenght limit.
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02-08-2018 07:36 AM
02-08-2018 07:36 AM
Re: Trunking Metro E?
Thanks, that makes sense.
After confirming with the provider that the connection is already encrypted on their equipment, I'm going to create a /30 on each switch and just add a route for each vlan on each switch.