David Freedman-
Do you have a preference of one over the other? I've been thinking
about the option of replacing our L2TPv3 deployment with EoMPLS (ie,
Cisco's ATOM model).
We are using Cisco 7203 with NSE engine for L2TPv3 acceleration; but I'm
not a big fan of this platform; we have 3bxl-sup720/cat6k at the core
that can do MPLS in hardware; I was just thinking of using GRE to
encapsulate the MPLS packet over to the spoke sites (thereby bypassing
the need to do MPLS end-to-end); this would allow EoMPLS over service
providers' native IP infrastructure.
Feedback?
Regards,
Ge Moua | Email: moua0...@umn.edu
Network Design Engineer
University of Minnesota | Networking & Telecommunications Services
David Freedman wrote:
Wow, this is actually a tricky question, so I'll jot down some points
for you to think about from the top of my head (and anybody, please feel
free to correct these if they are wrong, they may be out of date)
EoMPLS:
- Requires end-to-end MPLS LSP
- Does not support path fragmentation (need wider MTU end-to-end)
- Hardware support good
- OAM available
- Closer ties with MPLS-TE
- some vendors have attachment circuit interworking
- some hardware vendors may not be happy about attachment circuit MTU
mismatch
L2TPv3:
- Only requires IP (but has some rudimentary security (Cookie))
- "Path" Can be encrypted by IPSEC (this is actually a moot point, even
in a world where stuff like draft-raggarwa-mpls-ipsec wasn't
implemented, you can still encrypt the payloads of both technologies)
- Not well supported in hardware, lots of restrictions
- interworking support in hardware poor
- lack of proper OAM
Dave.
Michael Robson wrote:
What is the added benefit of running an EoMPLS pseudowire across an MPLS
cloud over an L2TPv3 tunnel over the same cloud?
Michael
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