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MAC Hiding in an H-VPLS Environment
draft-cowburn-l2vpn-vpls-ldp-mac-hiding-01

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Author Ian Cowburn
Last updated 2006-10-20
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Abstract

This document describes a mechanism for hiding customer MAC addresses on a PE-rs in an H-VPLS environment. In the H-VPLS hierarchy, a PE-rs is exposed to the MAC addresses for customers on its directly attached MTU-s and the remote MAC addresses for all of its configured VPLS instances. This can result in the requirement to store a large number of a MAC addresses. This document introduces the concept of an MTU-id per MTU-s which is included with the customer frame sent by an MTU-s. The PE-rs is then able to switch based on the MTU-id rather than the customer MAC addresses, thereby reducing the address storage requirements on the PE-rs to be of the order of the number of MTU-s.

Authors

Ian Cowburn

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