Re: Layer 2 vs. Layer 3 to TOR

[Cord MacLeod <cordmacleod () gmail com>]

On Nov 13, 2009, at 4:14 AM, Matthew Walster wrote:

> 2009/11/12 David Coulson <david () davidcoulson net>
>
> > You could route /32s within your L3 environment, or maybe even  
> > leverage
> > something like VPLS - Not sure of any TOR-level switches that MPLS
> > pseudowire a port into a VPLS cloud though.
>
> Just to let you know - the Juniper EX4200 series only support a  
> single label
> stack, and RSVP not LDP - plus they have a restricted BGP table  
> size, so
> VPLS is out of the question.

If you wanted something to do this, it's called an MX series.  The ex  
is a switch... l3, but still a switch.