[32078] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BOF on MPLS peering?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Raszuk)
Tue Nov 7 18:53:18 2000
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Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 15:56:48 -0800
From: Robert Raszuk <raszuk@cisco.com>
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If you are talking about EBGP vpnv4 peerings called internally
"Interprovider VPNs" cisco ships the code starting 12.1(5)T which does
this already. Plain EBGP IPv4 + label code is still under works and may
show up around 12.2(1/2)T.
R.
> hardie@equinix.com wrote:
>
> The spec on this really isn't done yet.
>
> draft-ietf-mpls-bgp4-mpls-04.txt has the current thinking on how to do
> this using BGP to carry the labels between ASes, but the
> implementations don't seem to be there yet. One of our guys, Diarmuid
> Flynn, added code to the route servers that would allow them to work
> with this, but so far we haven't been able to find router vendors who
> can provide us an image against which to test this.
>
> I think a BOF on how this would work operational would be valuable,
> so that we get interprovider agreement that BGP is/is not the
> best way to carry this stuff around. If you are proposing it
> for the Feb Nanog, there might even be early code to go through.
>
> regards,
> Ted Hardie
> Equinix
>
> >
> >
> > Is anyone currently talking about MPLS peering ?
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