L2CP Tunneling MEF

This chapter introduces you to L2 Control Protocols (L2CP) tunneling to help initiate control packets from a
local customer-edge (CE) device to a remote CE device.
• L2CP Tunneling, on page 1
• L2CP Protocol Support on Cisco NCS 5500 Series Router, on page 2

L2CP Tunneling
The router supports the following tunnel protocols:
• Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
• Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
• Operation, Administration, Management (OAM)
• Ethernet Local Management Interface (ELMI)
• Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)

Some of the L2 transport interfaces are:

• VPWS L2 transport main
• VPWS L2 subinterface
• L2 transport main bridge port
• L2 subinterface bridge port
• VPWS L2 bundle main port
• VPWS L2 bundle subinterface
• L2 bundle main bridge port

On a subinterface, when control packets such as LLDP and LACP are tunneled, the system tunnels the same
control packets to the main interface.
The LACP packet for VPLS (also known as ELAN service) either gets peered or dropped.
The router tunnels Layer 2 packets between PEs.

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The following figure depicts Layer 2 protocol tunneling.

Figure 1: L2CP Tunneling

L2CP packets are tunneled from NNI to NNI (depicted in red pipe). The Layer 2 traffic is sent through the
Cisco NCS 5500 Series Routers, and these routers switch the traffic from end to end.

Restrictions
• VPLS service does not support LACP tunneling.
• VPWS and EVPN-VPWS services support LACP tunneling.

L2CP Protocol Support on Cisco NCS 5500 Series Router

The router supports Layer 2 peering functionalities on a per Ethernet Flow Point (EFP) basis. It supports
maximum packet rate of 10 packets per second (per interface) for a protocol, and 100 packets per second for
all protocols (on all interfaces).
You do not need to configure L2CP tunneling explicitly. L2CP packets are tunneled over Layer 2 tunnel by
default.
The following table lists the options that are supported on the router and displays the supported defaults and
configuration options for the router.

Protocol Packet Type Action

CDP Untagged Peer

LACP Untagged Peer

LLDP Untagged Peer else Tunneled

STP Untagged Peer

VTP Untagged Peer

OAM Untagged Peer

BPDU Untagged Tunneled

UDLD Untagged Peer

CDP Tagged Tunneled

LACP Tagged Tunneled

LLDP Tagged Tunneled

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Protocol Packet Type Action

STP Tagged Tunneled

VTP Tagged Tunneled

BPDU Tagged Tunneled

OAM Tagged Tunneled

ELMI Tagged Tunneled

UDLD Tagged Peer

Protocol Services and Action on Cisco NCS 5700 Series Line Cards

EPL1 EPL2 ELAN E-Tree EVPL1 EVLAN EVTREE Enable on

Interface

STP Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Not

supported

RSTP Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Not

supported

LACP Tunnel Tunnel Discard Discard Discard Discard Discard Punt

/LAMP

LOAM Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel NA NA NA Drop

E-LMI Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Punt

LLDP Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Punt

PTP Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Punt

ESMC Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel NA NA NA Not

/SynCE supported

CDP Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel NA NA NA Punt

MACSEC Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Not Not Not Punt-not

supported supported supported supported

UDLD Drop Drop Drop Drop NA NA NA Punt

Note L2CP protocols over BVI is not supported.

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