[68218] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iMPLS benefit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Meyer)
Fri Mar 5 14:44:07 2004
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:43:33 -0800
From: David Meyer <dmm@1-4-5.net>
To: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@juniper.net>
Cc: sonet twister <sonet1010@yahoo.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200403051802.i25I2Ao40006@merlot.juniper.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:02:10AM -0800, Yakov Rekhter wrote:
>> 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.
Yep, you are correct. Sorry not to cite that one too.
Dave
