We're having some of the same thoughts in my company, and are a bit concerned over overhead on L2TPv3 and the following MTU limitations.
How do you people deal with this? -Allan On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Paul Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks guys... I hadn't head much about l2tpv3 "in the wild" from actual > users.... good to hear from folks actually using it a lot - that makes it > easier for me to make some decisions... > > Best regards, thanks to everyone for onlist and offlist replies... > > Paul > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John van Oppen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: October 1, 2008 4:07 AM > To: Robert Boyle; Paul Stewart; Michael K. Smith; cisco-nsp > Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Transparent LAN over Layer3 > > I would second that as well. We use l2tpv3 all over the place, with > Ethernet. We mostly do it with 7200VXRs as endpoints but I have a few > 12000s running with OC48s as "tunnel server cards" and those work nicely > as well and it is a quite elegant solution when MPLS is not possible or > only rather simple transport functionality is required. > > > > John van Oppen > Spectrum Networks LLC > 206.973.8302 (Direct) > 206.973.8300 (main office) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Boyle > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:39 PM > To: Paul Stewart; 'Michael K. Smith'; 'cisco-nsp' > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Transparent LAN over Layer3 > > At 10:20 PM 9/30/2008, Paul Stewart wrote: >>Yes, we own the end to end network however it's a routed network in > those >>segments... >>router-->router-->router-->switch-->switch-->router-->router-->router-- >>rout >>er specifically...;) >> >>If we could hand them off a few VLAN's we would just do that and not > even >>use Q-in-Q unless we really needed to... but basically I'm looking for >>layer2 transport via layer3 devices... and there's no option for MPLS > in >>this setup... > > Take a look at L2TPv3. We use it for all kinds of crazy transport > here. Taking a T1 from one city and one carrier and delivering it to > a customer in our datacenter, handing ATM PVCs off from one router to > another ATM PVC on another router 100 miles away. We haven't used it > for Ethernet, but that sure seems a lot less complicated than the > things we are doing. Anything you put in on one side is transparently > trunked to the other side. It works great and gives you many of the > benefits of MPLS without the need to have a network which supports > MPLS end to end. It is especially useful for small POPs and locations > with older gear. > > -Robert > > > > Tellurian Networks - Global Hosting Solutions Since 1995 > http://www.tellurian.com | 888-TELLURIAN | 973-300-9211 > "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
