FIB Reduction in Virtual Subnet
draft-xu-l3vpn-virtual-subnet-fib-reduction-00
Network working group X. Xu
Internet Draft Huawei
Category: Informational
S. Hares
Y. Fan
China Telecom
C. Jacquenet
Orange
T. Boyes
Bloomberg LP
B Fee
Extreme Networks
Expires: August 2014 February 14, 2014
FIB Reduction in Virtual Subnet
draft-xu-l3vpn-virtual-subnet-fib-reduction-00
Abstract
Virtual Subnet is a L3VPN-based subnet extension solution which can
be used to build Layer3 network virtualization overlays within and/or
across data centers. This document describes a mechanism for reducing
the FIB size of PE routers in the Virtual Subnet context.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ................................................ 3
2. Solution Overview ........................................... 3
3. Security Considerations ..................................... 5
4. IANA Considerations ......................................... 5
5. Acknowledgements ............................................ 5
6. References .................................................. 5
6.1. Normative References ................................... 5
6.2. Informative References ................................. 5
Authors' Addresses ............................................. 5
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1. Introduction
Virtual Subnet [VS] is a L3VPN-based subnet extension solution which
can be used to build Layer3 network virtualization overlays within
and/or across data centers. Since host routes of a given VPN instance
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