[116034] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using CE Router for Internet and VPN services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Fri Jul 17 09:17:41 2009
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:16:52 +0200 (CEST)
To: jbates@brightok.net
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <4A6074ED.8040200@brightok.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, akhmed.aly@gmail.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> > Please describe all benefits and detriments of using more than /30
> > subnet on SP PE.
> > Some good links will be very useful for me.
>
> Don't know all, but have you see the arp tables on a PE router? Have you
> seen some of the crazy things devices other than routers can do on
> ethernet?
Good point. We allow VPN users to have up to a /29 directly connected.
Any more than that and we require a CE router. Important for scaling
when you have PEs aggregating 10k or 20k customer interfaces.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
