I have 3x l2 services between 2 parts of my network as seen in the image attached. I am able to run 2x L2 (10g Service and the 2G service) fine as the ports are isolated on the right side crs317 and the vlans terminate on a separet interface.
However, attempting to get the 1G service up creates a loop as soon as its added to the bridge on both CRS’s. Having one side disabled in the bridge keeps the l2 up.
How can I make use of all 3x l2s? I only have 1 port connected to the switch from the 2x crs on the left
One reason why no one responds may be that a lot of information is missing in what you wrote so far.
I assume that each “service” provides an L2-transparent “pipe” between the two sites. Do you want to dedicate each “service” to an independent group of VLANs, or do you plan some redundancy (some VLANs to prefer one of the “services” but use another if the preferred one becomes unavailable)?
Also, you mention the two ports at the right CRS to be isolated, but you didn’t say whether the one for the 1 Gbit/s service is isolated too. If it is not, there is no surprise you get a loop.
When testing the VLAN filtering on a software bridge (i.e. not the CRS3xx product line), I’ve seen that it actually only worked in one direction (I don’t remember whether it was ingress or egress), so it wasn’t enough to be set at just one end of the connection. It may be the same case with the CRS 3xx, I can’t say, I have never practically tested that.
It is also not clear why you cannot set port isolation (and vlan filtering) at both CRS3xx.
