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Title : Testing Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN Services
Author(s) : O. Stokes, et al.
Filename : draft-stokes-vkompella-l2vpn-hvpls-oam-00.txt
Pages : 16
Date : 2004-10-19
This document describes a methodology for testing the operation,
administration and maintenance (OA&M) of a general VPN service, that
is applied here to Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN Services (HVPLS)
as described in [VPLS]. As part of this methodology, the MPLS ping
concepts described in [LSP-PING] are extended to enable HVPLS spoke-
to-spoke connectivity testing. The approaches to identifying OAM
packets has also been made compatible with [LSP-PING] and [PWE3-VCCV].
These are the goals of this draft:
- checking connectivity between 'service-aware' nodes of a
network,
- verifying data plane and control plane integrity,
- verifying service membership
There are two specific requirements to which we call attention because
of their seemingly contradictory nature:
- the checking of connectivity MUST involve the ability to use
packets that look like customer packets
- the OAM packets MUST not propagate beyond the boundary of the
provider network
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