Thursday, January 28, 2010

Internet Draft: Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs

Another very interesting Internet Draft was posted today:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-l3vpn-2547bis-mcast-10

In todays MPLS VPN networks, multicast isn't natively supported, but there are some duct-tape workarounds to get it to work (MDT with GRE). Finally a more permanent solution is coming, albeit at the cost of some pretty complex functionality (luckily only in the SP network).

A bit of a long read, but there is some interesting info contained within if you can keep up with the theory.

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