Brocade Multi-Service IronWare Switching Configuration Guide (Supporting R05.6.00) - Manual (Page 303)

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Adding and removing VLANs and ESIs
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Uniqueness requirements for VLANs
FIGURE 40 CVLAN uniqueness requirement
A CVLAN value to be added to a C-ESI must be unique:
• Among all CVLANs within the C-ESI
• If the C-ESI has a provider S-ESI (with or without a SVLAN), the CVLAN needs to be unique
across all C-ESI that are clients of the provider S-ESI.
Default ESI
If CVLANs are not bound to a particular C-ESI, that is not entered with any ESI name they are
assigned to a default ESI.
• CVLANs need to be unique among all CVLANs that are not bound to a particular C-ESI.
Multiple
CVLANs
Multiple
CVLANs
Multiple
CVLANs
Single
SVLAN
Multiple
CVLANs
Multiple
CVLANs
Default
ESI
C-ESI S-ESI
A CVLAN in a particular C-ESI needs to be
unique among all C-ESIs that are bound to
the provider S-ESI
CVLANs bound to no ESI (i.e.
default ESI) need to be all unique
C-ESI
C-ESI
C-ESI