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Re: MPLS for IPv6
From: Nathan Ward <nanog () daork net>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:45:55 +1300
On 5/11/2008, at 11:36 AM, Daniel Roesen wrote:
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:53:46PM -0600, devang patel wrote:Does any vendor support the MPLS for native IPv6 network?Unfortunately noone of the major vendors have yet implemented MPLS control plane via IPv6 transport. From my understanding, the protocol specs are there, just no implementation. So for now, you still have to use IPv4 for the MPLS network control plane and must either forward IPv6 natively dual-stack alongside IPv4, or transport IPv6 via 6(V)PE. "no customer demand", as usual. It's just us weirdos trying to do such things. :)
Correct, LDP etc. must all be done at IPv4.That can do the MPLS label bits, and IPv6 can then be carried inside MPLS.
If you use 10.0.0.0/8 for numbering your point to point links, you get 4-8M links, dependant on whether you do /30 or /31.
I don't imagine that represents a problem for many people. -- Nathan Ward
Current thread:
- MPLS for IPv6 devang patel (Nov 04)
- Re: MPLS for IPv6 Charles Wyble (Nov 04)
- Re: MPLS for IPv6 devang patel (Nov 04)
- Re: MPLS for IPv6 Charles Wyble (Nov 04)
- Re: MPLS for IPv6 Daniel Roesen (Nov 04)
- Re: MPLS for IPv6 Nathan Ward (Nov 04)
- Re: MPLS for IPv6 David Freedman (Nov 07)
- Re: MPLS for IPv6 Mark Tinka (Nov 09)
- RE: MPLS for IPv6 Miya Kohno (Nov 09)
- Re: MPLS for IPv6 Julien Goodwin (Nov 09)
- RE: MPLS for IPv6 Miya Kohno (Nov 09)
- RE: MPLS for IPv6 David Freedman (Nov 10)
- RE: MPLS for IPv6 Miya Kohno (Nov 10)
- Re: MPLS for IPv6 Charles Wyble (Nov 04)