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Re: SRv6


From: Jeff Tantsura <jefftant.ietf () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 13:25:49 -0700

Randy,

Was meant as the reply to Aaron’s comment about VPN’s over non MPLS underlay, not the encryption of it (which is 
orthogonal).

Cheers,
Jeff
On Sep 15, 2020, 12:59 PM -0700, Randy Bush <randy () psg com>, wrote:
GRE, VXLAN or any other tunneling encap of the day.
As long as next-hop could be resolved behind remote end

i was not aware that GRE, VXLAN (without CN103618596A), and other tunnel
encaps encrypted the payload. learn something new every day. thanks!

I'm still learning, but, It does seem interesting that the IP layer
(v6) can now support vpn's without mpls.
as the packet payload is nekkid cleartext, where is the P in vpn?

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