FA Clients Connected to BPEs with Extended Edge Switching Ring MLAG-Connected CB FA Standalone Peers

Fabric Attach (FA) standalone proxy introduces FA proxy functionality in environments without an FA server. FA provisions VLANs on the FA standalone proxy switch for itself, and for connected FA clients, and then adds the VLAN membership to the uplink port facing the core (non-FA) switch or router for connection to existing services. The provisioned VLANs at the access layer switch must match the VLANs on the opposite end of the link at the core/aggregation layer switch for communications to operate. You can use this design with an existing legacy core network infrastructure (any vendor).

This configuration example shows how to configure FA standalone CB Extended Edge Switching MLAG peers over a ring to receive and approve VLAN/NSI mappings from an FA client connected to BPEs.

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FA Clients Connected to BPEs with Extended Edge Switching Ring MLAG-Connected CBs FA Standalone Peers

Controlling Bridge1 FA Standalone Proxy

Slot-1 CB1-465.11 # show configuration lldp 
#
# Module lldp configuration.
#
configure fabric attach uplink 1:26
Slot-1 CB1-465.12 # show fabric attach assignments 
Fabric Attach Mode: Standalone Proxy
Port     VLAN  VLAN Name                         Type     ISID/NSI  Status
-------  ----  --------------------------------  -------  --------  --------
143:6     505  SYS_VLAN_0505                     Dynamic  N/A       Active  
143:6     707  SYS_VLAN_0707                     Dynamic  N/A       Active  
143:6    4004  SYS_VLAN_4004                     Dynamic  N/A       Active  
* (pacman debug) Slot-1 VPEX CB1-465.13 # show lldp ports 143:6 neighbors detailed 

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LLDP Port 143:6 detected 1 neighbor
  Neighbor: 00:04:96:98:A9:1A/17, age 19 seconds
    - Chassis ID type: MAC address (4)
      Chassis ID     : 00:04:96:98:A9:1A
    - Port ID type: ifName (5)
      Port ID     : "17"
    - Time To Live: 120 seconds
    - System Name: "FAClient-switch_model"
    - System Description: "ExtremeXOS (switch_model) version 30.4.0.524 30.\
                           4.0.524 by release-manager on Fri Oct 25 15:01:31\
                            EDT 2019"
    - Avaya/Extreme Fabric Attach element
      Element Type   : 8
      State          : 0
      Management Vlan: 0
      SystemId       : 00:04:96:98:a9:1a
      Link Info      : 00-01-00-11

    - Extreme Fabric Attach NSI(I-SID)/VLAN map
    Status  VlanID  NSI(I-SID)
    ------  ------  --------
         2     505      5050
         2     707     70707
         2    4004     41414
Slot-1 CB1-465.14 # show vlan
Untagged ports auto-move: Inform
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name            VID  Protocol Addr       Flags                         Proto  Ports  Virtual   
                                                                              Active router
                                                                              /Total
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Default         1    --------------------------------T---------------  ANY    5 /151 VR-Default 
isc             1001 100.100.100.1  /24  ------I---------------------  ANY    1 /1   VR-Default 
Mgmt            4095 10.127.16.12   /24  ----------------------------  ANY    1 /1   VR-Mgmt    
SYS_VLAN_0505   505  ---------------------------------------d--------  ANY    3 /3   VR-Default 
SYS_VLAN_0707   707  ---------------------------------------d--------  ANY    3 /3   VR-Default 
SYS_VLAN_1000   1000 ---------------------------------------d--------  ANY    3 /3   VR-Default 
SYS_VLAN_4004   4004 ---------------------------------------d--------  ANY    3 /3   VR-Default 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Slot-1 CB1-465.15 # show vlan 505 | include Tag:
VLAN 505: show vlan SYS_VLAN_0505 | include Tag:
       Tag:   *1:26GF,*143:6F,*1:27gF

Controlling Bridge 2 FA Standalone Proxy

Slot-1 VPEX CB2-670.9 # show configuration lldp 
#
# Module lldp configuration.
#
configure fabric attach uplink 1:24
Slot-1 CB2-670.10 # show fabric attach assignments 
Fabric Attach Mode: Standalone Proxy
Port     VLAN  VLAN Name                         Type     ISID/NSI  Status
-------  ----  --------------------------------  -------  --------  --------
143:6     505  SYS_VLAN_0505                     Dynamic  N/A       Active  
143:6     707  SYS_VLAN_0707                     Dynamic  N/A       Active  
143:6    4004  SYS_VLAN_4004                     Dynamic  N/A       Active  
* (pacman debug) Slot-1 VPEX CB2-670.11 # 
* (pacman debug) Slot-1 VPEX CB2-670.11 # show lldp ports 143:6 neighbors detailed 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
LLDP Port 143:6 detected 1 neighbor
  Neighbor: 00:04:96:98:A9:1A/17, age 18 seconds
    - Chassis ID type: MAC address (4)
      Chassis ID     : 00:04:96:98:A9:1A
    - Port ID type: ifName (5)
      Port ID     : "17"
    - Time To Live: 120 seconds
    - System Name: "FAClient-switch_model"
    - System Description: "ExtremeXOS (switch_model) version 30.4.0.524 30.\
                           4.0.524 by release-manager on Fri Oct 25 15:01:31\
                            EDT 2019"
    - Avaya/Extreme Fabric Attach element
      Element Type   : 8
      State          : 0
      Management Vlan: 0
      SystemId       : 00:04:96:98:a9:1a
      Link Info      : 00-01-00-11

    - Extreme Fabric Attach NSI(I-SID)/VLAN map
    Status  VlanID  NSI(I-SID)
    ------  ------  --------
         2     505      5050
         2     707     70707
         2    4004     41414
Slot-1 CB2-670.12 # show vlan
Untagged ports auto-move: Inform
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name            VID  Protocol Addr       Flags                         Proto  Ports  Virtual   
                                                                              Active router
                                                                              /Total
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Default         1    --------------------------------T---------------  ANY    6 /183 VR-Default 
isc             1001 100.100.100.2  /24  ------I---------------------  ANY    1 /1   VR-Default 
Mgmt            4095 10.127.16.6    /24  ----------------------------  ANY    1 /1   VR-Mgmt    
SYS_VLAN_0505   505  ---------------------------------------d--------  ANY    3 /3   VR-Default 
SYS_VLAN_0707   707  ---------------------------------------d--------  ANY    3 /3   VR-Default 
SYS_VLAN_1000   1000 ---------------------------------------d--------  ANY    4 /4   VR-Default 
SYS_VLAN_4004   4004 ---------------------------------------d--------  ANY    3 /3   VR-Default 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Slot-1 CB2-670.13 # show vlan 505 | include Tag:
VLAN 505: show vlan SYS_VLAN_0505 | include Tag:
       Tag:   *1:24GF,*143:6F,*1:47gF