I thought you just used vpls for that...

On Friday, February 17, 2017, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote:

> You stretch vlans over your mpls fabric?
>
> :(
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Carl Peterson
> <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > I've never used it on Router OS, so I can't speak to that, but we use it
> > between each POP and the BNG.
> > Only real drawbacks that I see are:
> >  You need to be careful about MTUs.
> >  It is harder to use diverse geographically separated upstreams.
> >
> > It makes life simple.  We run a SVLAN over VPLS to each POP and then
> assign
> > each customer a unique CVLAN on that SVLAN.  The BNG dynamically creates
> the
> > SVAN.CVLAN for the customer, authenticates them via radius, and assigns
> DHCP
> > filters, routing instances, etc.  We are still working on transitioning
> > customers and POPs over but thus far it has been pretty painless.
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Jason McKemie
> > <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'll have to catch up on some of those, just wondered what others had
> >> found.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]
> <javascript:;>>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> There are a lot of NANOG presentations on this topic in Google.
> >>>
> >>> On Feb 17, 2017 2:27 PM, "Jason McKemie"
> >>> <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm starting to utilize MPLS/VPLS at the edge of my network for a
> >>>> specific location, but am wondering if there is any reason to not
> just use
> >>>> it all the way back to the core.  What are the pros/cons of using
> MPLS?  I
> >>>> would think that you could save some public IPs if nothing else.
> >>>>
> >>>> Also, has anyone had any issues with MPLS/VPLS on the latest stable
> >>>> RouterOS version (6.38.1)?
> >>>>
> >>>> -Jason
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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