[j-nsp] Route Distinguisher

[Bradley Dunn]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Daniel Yang wrote:

> Can someone direct me to any documentation explaning
> the difference between Type 1 and type 2
> route-distignuisher?  Is this a standard thing?

The difference is the semantics of the Administrator subfield of the RD. See 
section 4.2 of 
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ppvpn-rfc2547bis-02.txt

To summarize the Administrator subfields:
Type 0: 2-byte ASN
Type 1: 4-byte IP address
Type 2: 4-byte ASN

Bradley