[c-nsp] VPLS and BPDU

[Saku Ytti]

On (2012-06-14 12:19 +0200), Daniel Verlouw wrote:

> If the -customer- would rewrite the dst mac prior to ingressing into your
> service, that would be fine.

Thanks Daniel I really appreciate your thoughts on the matter. 

I have pretty much same feeling, it wouldn't be MEF compliant product if
I'd do this hackery. And I'd love to advertise that we've read related
standards and are compliant to them instead of ninja NIHing it.
If I would do it, I would do it at customer site on managed CE, but I don't
think that much changes the situation, I would be in violation of MEF.

> To be honest, I don't understand why MEF states it must not be tunneled on
> any of the vlan-based services, and if someone from MEF or a MEF-member is
> lurking, I'd love to hear some good reasoning for this as well :-)

Quite. But if I'm not blind MEF does not even have public mailing list,
they seem to be ivory tower to the power of rad even compared to IETF.

So there is good chance that I'm not talking crazy, wanting to tunnel BPDU
in VLAN based multipoint MEF, but problem might be that MEF does not know
what people in real world want. Tunneling seem better for provider and
customer.


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