[119315] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Layer 2 vs. Layer 3 to TOR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cord MacLeod)
Fri Nov 13 13:18:08 2009
From: Cord MacLeod <cordmacleod@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <c2af1d7d0911130414q753ed6c4l5f1b65e7135d655d@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:17:20 -0800
To: Matthew Walster <matthew@walster.org>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Nov 13, 2009, at 4:14 AM, Matthew Walster wrote:
> 2009/11/12 David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>
>
>> You could route /32s within your L3 environment, or maybe even
>> leverage
>> something like VPLS - Not sure of any TOR-level switches that MPLS
>> pseudowire a port into a VPLS cloud though.
>>
>
> Just to let you know - the Juniper EX4200 series only support a
> single label
> stack, and RSVP not LDP - plus they have a restricted BGP table
> size, so
> VPLS is out of the question.
If you wanted something to do this, it's called an MX series. The ex
is a switch... l3, but still a switch.
