[Xorp-users] MPLS & MPLS/BGP efforts

[Mike Horn]

Hi Chris,

Sounds like we have similar arguments with our gray matter. ;-)  Out of curiosity, since you are planning to run the LSPs over tunnels, are you just using MPLS for traffic segregation?  Or is there some other L3VPN capability that you are trying to leverage?

I don't see anyone using Vyatta/XORP as a commercial PE router, at least not for quite some time, so our development in this area is probably a ways out.  However, if you are able to contribute your work back to the Vyatta/XORP community I'm sure we would all like to be able to leverage what you guys get done.

Looking to hearing about your progress!

-mike

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Robson NRL <Chris.Robson@nrl.navy.mil>
To: Mike Horn <mhorn@vyatta.com>, Hasso Tepper <hasso@linux.ee>
Cc: xorp-users@xorp.org
Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2006 3:01:38 PM GMT-0700
Subject: Re: [Xorp-users] MPLS & MPLS/BGP efforts


No problem, you should see my gray matter when not sufficient 
tuned.  Which, for me, is all day every day... :-)

I do have a R&D effort revolving around MPLS and would be very interested 
in any work in these areas.  What I hear from the commercial side is large 
support for L3VPNs.  As for the open-community I am clueless to any need 
other than my own.  In fact, the next step after solving the (please excuse 
the lack of a better name) OpenMPLS I plan to then run the LSPs over IPSec 
and GRE (or IP-In-IP).

Anyway...thanks for the update, and good work...Chris

At 04:32 PM 3/9/2006, Mike Horn wrote:
>Thanks Hasso.  I read Chris's email too quickly.  Let me clarify my comments:
>
>The Vyatta implementation will probably implement some type of 
>site-to-site tunneled VPN solution first (IPsec, [GRE+IPsec], SSL), we are 
>looking for ideas on which specific projects we should integrate.  We are 
>also looking at remote access VPN gateway solutions (IPsec and/or SSL) for 
>mobile users.
>
>For true MPLS-based L3VPN we will need to gauge community interest in 
>this.  If you are looking for full PE functionality, my guess would be 
>that there is limited demand for this, but we'll let the community tell us 
>that.  We can already act as a CE device, so no changes needed there.
>
>I would say the same thing about L2VPN, we would need to better understand 
>community interest and desired capabilities.
>
>Sorry for any confusion, the caffeine was just starting to kick in :-)
>
>-mike
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Hasso Tepper <hasso@linux.ee>
>To: xorp-users@xorp.org
>Cc: Mike Horn <mhorn@vyatta.com>, Chris Robson NRL <Chris.Robson@nrl.navy.mil>
>Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2006 9:11:59 AM GMT-0700
>Subject: Re: [Xorp-users] MPLS & MPLS/BGP efforts
>
>Mike Horn wrote:
> > Vyatta, which is based on the XORP routing platform, is working on
> > adding L3VPN support and possibly L2VPN support depending community
> > demand.  Once we get it working we'll try to get it integrated with
> > XORP provided it is something they want to add.
>
>Excellent.
>
> > For L2VPN are you looking for just 2547, or are you also interested in
> > the PWE3 stuff as well?
>
>RFC2547 isn't about L2VPN, but L3VPN and is obsoleted by RFC4364
>already ;).
>
>
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