Yes, today P2MP can only be achieved with RSVP. Also, P2MP is thought for a different application than VPLS perhaps. VPLS is bidirectional any-to-any communication. P2MP is one-way from-on-to-many communication.
Patrik Muhammad Asif Rao wrote: > as far as i know this feature is not available yet. lsp is only p2p > > @$IF > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Clarke Morledge <chm...@wm.edu> wrote: > >> I am in the process of building a VPLS implementation using LDP to build >> the LSPs but using BGP to handle the L2 signaling: >> >> I know that there is a dynamic way to configure point-to-multipoint (P2MP) >> LSPs when using RSVP with the "provider-tunnel" keyword for each VPLS >> routing instance , but I don't quite understand how to do this with LDP. I'm >> getting a little lost when reading this: >> >> >> http://jnpr.net/techpubs/en_US/junos10.0/information-products/topic-collections/feature-guide/vpls-traffic-flooding-p2mp-lsp-solutions.html >> >> I see that there is some IETF draft work being done on P2MP for LDP: >> >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-p2mp-08 >> >> Does this mean that dynamic P2MP LSPs for LDP with VPLS isn't available >> yet, or is there some other workaround? >> >> I'm having some difficulty trying to wrap my head around this. The >> ultimate purpose is to cut down on unnecessary packet replication due to >> broadcast, multicast, and unknown unicast within VPLS. I would rather not >> use RSVP since it is more complex to configure than LDP, but perhaps LDP >> isn't ready for P2MP for primetime? >> >> >> Clarke Morledge >> College of William and Mary >> Information Technology - Network Engineering >> Jones Hall (Room 18) >> Williamsburg VA 23187 >> _______________________________________________ >> juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp >> > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp -- //Patrik Webkom http://www.webkom.se +46 (0)709 35 22 99 +46 (0)8 559 26 488 _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp