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PROPOSED STANDARD

Authors:

P. Pillay-Esnault
P. Moyer
J. Doyle
E. Ertekin
M. Lundberg

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IETF

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l3vpn (rtg)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6565

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Abstract

Many Service Providers (SPs) offer Virtual Private Network (VPN)services to their customers using a technique in which Customer Edge(CE) routers are routing peers of Provider Edge (PE) routers. TheBorder Gateway Protocol (BGP) is used to distribute the customer'sroutes across the provider's IP backbone network, and MultiprotocolLabel Switching (MPLS) is used to tunnel customer packets across theprovider's backbone. Support currently exists for both IPv4 and IPv6VPNs; however, only Open Shortest Path First version 2 (OSPFv2) asPE-CE protocol is specified. This document extends thosespecifications to support OSPF version 3 (OSPFv3) as a PE-CE routingprotocol. The OSPFv3 PE-CE functionality is identical to that ofOSPFv2 except for the differences described in this document.[STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.