[32079] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BOF on MPLS peering?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hardie@equinix.com)
Tue Nov 7 20:14:36 2000
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To: raszuk@cisco.com (Robert Raszuk)
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 17:12:18 -0800 (PST)
Cc: hardie@equinix.com, bbiver@hotmail.com (Bob Biver),
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3A0896C0.F2AA3B6@cisco.com> from "Robert Raszuk" at Nov 07, 2000 03:56:48 PM
From: hardie@equinix.com
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I was talking about the EBGP + label code.
regards,
Ted Hardie
Equinix
>
>
> 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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