[40384] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MPLS VPNs or not?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean M. Doran)
Wed Aug 8 06:24:15 2001
To: avg@exigengroup.com, yakov@juniper.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-Id: <20010808102137.53DC0C790B@cesium.clock.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 03:21:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
avg:
| > Yakov, that was not nice.
|
| Then to be consistent with your own position, you certainly should agree
| that 2547 is "the way to do" VPNs, as with 2547 all the VPN-related
| information is confined to the PEs (where "PE" stands for provider *edge*),
| and none of the P (core) routers maintain any VPN-related information.
Regrettably, even one's greatest allies on some fronts can develop
tunnel vision.
Sean. (not nice either)