[68214] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iMPLS benefit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yakov Rekhter)
Fri Mar 5 13:05:13 2004
To: David Meyer <dmm@1-4-5.net>
Cc: sonet twister <sonet1010@yahoo.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:38:29 PST."
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Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:02:10 -0800
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@juniper.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Dave,
> Hey Suki,
>
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 02:14:20PM -0800, sonet twister wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> i heard there is a way to run MPLS for layer3 VPN(2547)
> >> service without needing to run label switching in the
> >> core(LDP/TDP/RSVP) but straight IP (aka iMPLS).
>
> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-townsley-l2tpv3-mpls-01.txt
>
> See also Mark's talk from the last NANOG
>
> http://nanog.org/mtg-0402/townsley.html
That requires to run L2TP. An alternative is to run GRE (or even plain
IP). The latter (GRE) is implemented by quite a few vendors (and is
known to be interoperable among multiple vendors).
The spec is draft-ietf-l3vpn-gre-ip-2547-01.txt.
Yakov.
