Thanks Brain for the alert. RFC5571 is a hub-and-spoke architecture using
6over4overl2tpv2 where 4over6 doesn't need the l2tpv2 encap.

/Yiu

On 3/31/11 3:12 AM, "Brian E Carpenter" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Terminology alert:
>
>On 2011-03-31 10:12, Lee, Yiu wrote:
>> See inline:
>> 
>> On 3/30/11 12:55 PM, "Ole Troan" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> reading drafts during the plenary post working group session.
>>>
>>> 1) what does this solution offer that isn't in RFC5571? different
>>> encapsulation?
>> 
>> Similar but there is a major difference. RFC5571 is 6over4 using l2tpv2
>>to
>
>No, RFC 2529 defines "6over4". Please don't create confusion by using
>"6over4" to mean anything except RFC 2529.
>
>    Brian
>
>> punch through the NAT. This doesn't need this requirement, so l2tpv2
>>isn't
>> needed. 
>> 
>>> 2) host initiated. does this propose to support hosts behind a CPE? how
>>> would they then be
>>>   provisioned?
>> 
>> The idea is the CPE will be the dhcp relay agent which will relay the
>>dhcp
>> requests from the hosts behind the CPE to the dhcp server. That said,
>> there are details we need to sort out such as the CPE must be also
>> provisioned an ipv4 address from the same subnet to support
>>hair-pinning.
>> Also the servers behind the CPE are normal servers, we need to detail
>> how/when to create the binding in the NAT table so that it won't require
>> the servers to send keepalive to the TC.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Yiu
>> 
>>> cheers,
>>> Ole
>>>
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