Multicast in Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Standard
Pages: 50
Abstract: RFCs 4761 and 4762 describe a solution for Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) multicast that relies on the use of point-to-point or multipoint-to-point unicast Label Switched Paths (LSPs) for carrying multicast traffic. This solution has certain limitations for certain VPLS multicast traffic profiles. For example, it may result in highly non-optimal bandwidth utilization when a large amount of multicast traffic is to be transported. This document describes solutions for overcoming a subset of the limitations of the existing VPLS multicast solution. It describes procedures for VPLS multicast that utilize multicast trees in the service provider (SP) network. The solution described in this document allows sharing of one such multicast tree among multiple VPLS instances. Furthermore, the solution described in this document allows a single multicast tree in the SP network to carry traffic belonging only to a specified set of one or more IP multicast streams from one or more VPLS instances.
Publication Date: 2014-02-01
Status Note: Proposed Standard
DOI: 10.17487/RFC7117
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7117
Author(s): Rahul Aggarwal
Yuji Kamite
Luyuan Fang
Yakov Rekhter
Chaitanya Kodeboniya

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Normative Reference(s)

IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3209 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4760 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4761 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4762 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5036 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5331 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6511 [Active*]
RFC6512 — RFC6512 EXTERNAL

Bibliographic Reference(s)

Kothari, B., Kompella, K., Henderickx, W., Balus, F., Uttaro, J., Palislamovic, S., and W. Lin, "BGP based Multi-homing in Virtual Private LAN Service", Work in Progress, July 2013. EXTERNAL
IANA, "Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Parameters", < http://www.iana.org/assignments/bgp-parameters >. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 1997 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2236 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2710 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3376 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 3810 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 4364 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4447 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 4541 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4601 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 4684 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4875 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5332 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5501 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5925 [Active*]
RFC6074 — RFC6074 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 6388 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6513 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6514 [Active*]

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IETF RFC 7432 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7439 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7606 [Active*]