Provider Bridging Commands

The commands in this section are used by service providers to set the bridge mode for setting up tunnels through their network to pass through external customer traffic from a provider network ingress port to a provider network egress port. The provider can assign a single VLAN through their network for all customer traffic egressing through a set port, instead of having to create and manage a separate VLAN for each customer VLAN.

The commands specific to this feature set the bridge mode and show the current bridge mode. All other commands for configuring this feature are VLAN commands described elsewhere in this chapter. For a description of the Provider Bridging feature and its configuration, refer to VLAN Assignment and Forwarding in the S-, K-, and 7100 Series Configuration Guide.