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a. The PE router will encapsulate this packet in the appropriate MPLS header and transport it 
across the core network to the remote 7210-C.
3. 7210-C (Figure 36)
a. 7210-C associates the packet with the VPLS instance based on the VC label in the received 
packet after the stripping of the tunnel label.
b. 7210-C learns the source MAC address in the packet and creates an entry in the FIB table 
that associates the MAC address to the spoke SDP on which the packet was received.
c. The destination MAC address in the packet is looked up in the FIB table for the VPLS in-
stance. Again, there are two possibilities: either the destination MAC address has already 
been learned (known MAC address) or the destination MAC address has not been learned 
on the access side of 7210-C (unknown MAC address).
d. If the destination MAC address has been learned by 7210-C, an existing entry in the FIB 
table identifies the local access port and the IEEE 802.1Q tag (if any) to be added before 
sending the packet to customer Location-C. The egress Q tag may be different than the in-
gress Q tag.
e. If the destination MAC address has not been learned, 7210 will flood the packet to all the 
access SAPs that are participating in the service.