[c-nsp] Transparent LAN over Layer3

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:20:40PM -0400, Paul Stewart wrote:
> If we could hand them off a few VLAN's we would just do that and not even
> use Q-in-Q unless we really needed to... but basically I'm looking for
> layer2 transport via layer3 devices...  and there's no option for MPLS in
> this setup...

EoMPLS would be the way to go - if you can do MPLS.

If not, the remaining alternatives are L2TPv3 or "briding over GRE 
tunnels".  The former is meant to be used for this - and the latter
will make Rodney Dunn throw spikey things after me (and rightly so).

So - go for L2TPv3.

gert
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