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Title : MAC Hiding in an H-VPLS Environment
Author(s) : I. Cowburn
Filename : draft-cowburn-l2vpn-vpls-ldp-mac-hiding-01.txt
Pages : 14
Date : 2006-10-20
This document describes a mechanism for hiding customer MAC
addresses on a PE-rs in an H-VPLS environment. In the H-VPLS
hierarchy, a PE-rs is exposed to the MAC addresses for customers on
its directly attached MTU-s and the remote MAC addresses for all of
its configured VPLS instances. This can result in the requirement
to store a large number of a MAC addresses.
This document introduces the concept of an MTU-id per MTU-s which is
included with the customer frame sent by an MTU-s. The PE-rs is
then able to switch based on the MTU-id rather than the customer MAC
addresses, thereby reducing the address storage requirements on the
PE-rs to be of the order of the number of MTU-s.
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