Hi, I'm also looking into using L2TPv3
But I'm looking for a small cheap router that would support this. I guess with either FastE mtu configurable or with GigE ports to avoid fragmentation? Thanks -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Stewart Sent: mercredi 1 octobre 2008 13:39 To: 'John van Oppen'; 'Robert Boyle'; 'Michael K. Smith'; 'cisco-nsp' Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Transparent LAN over Layer3 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/
