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Re: MPLS in the campus Network?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Wed Nov 2 03:26:16 2016

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 09:25:41 +0200
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 24/Oct/16 22:13, Wayne Bouchard wrote:

> If the reason for L2 transport is purely customer driven and purely
> ptp, then a L2 VPN solution would be better than directly transporting
> the frames. If you don't have to bridge it directly, don't. Keep the
> core at layer 3 wherever possible. L2 can be very hard to debug when
> there are issues.

Not sure I understand - are you advocating for EoMPLS (l2vpn) over
EoDWDM more often than not, if possible?.

Mark.

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