@techreport{stokes-vkompella-l2vpn-hvpls-oam-00,
    number =    {draft-stokes-vkompella-l2vpn-hvpls-oam-00},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-stokes-vkompella-l2vpn-hvpls-oam/00/},
    author =    {Olen Stokes and Vach Kompella and Giles Heron and Yetik Serbest},
    title =     {{Testing Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN Services}},
    pagetotal = 16,
    year =      2004,
    month =     oct,
    day =       19,
    abstract =  {This document describes a methodology for testing the operation, administration and maintenance (OA\&M) of a general VPN service, that is applied here to Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN Services (HVPLS) as described in {[}VPLS{]}. As part of this methodology, the MPLS ping concepts described in {[}LSP-PING{]} are extended to enable HVPLS spoke- to-spoke connectivity testing. The approaches to identifying OAM packets has also been made compatible with {[}LSP-PING{]} and {[}PWE3-VCCV{]}. These are the goals of this draft: - checking connectivity between 'service-aware' nodes of a network, - verifying data plane and control plane integrity, - verifying service membership There are two specific requirements to which we call attention because of their seemingly contradictory nature: - the checking of connectivity MUST involve the ability to use packets that look like customer packets - the OAM packets MUST not propagate beyond the boundary of the provider network},
}