[50806] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri Aug 9 18:07:15 2002
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 01:06:36 +0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> What functionality does PVC give you that the ethernet VLAN does not?
>
Thatīs quite easy. Endpoint liveness. A IPv4 host on a VLAN has no idea
if the guy on the "other end" died until the BGP timer expires.
FR has LMI, ATM has OAM. (and ILMI)
Pete
