[c-nsp] Transparent LAN over Layer3

[Paul Stewart]

Lol - thanks...;)  I wish EoMPLS was possible for us but it's not.... so
we're back to l2tpv3 ...

Best,

Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert at greenie.muc.de] 
Sent: October 1, 2008 4:31 AM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: 'Michael K. Smith'; 'cisco-nsp'
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Transparent LAN over Layer3

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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