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Re: BOF on MPLS peering?

  • From: hardie
  • Date: Tue Nov 07 20:15:24 2000

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.
> 
> > [email protected] 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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