Name: draft-stokes-vkompella-l2vpn-hvpls-oam-00
Title: Testing Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN Services
State: Active
Authors: Olen Stokes, Vach Kompella, Giles Heron, Yetik Serbest
Group: Individual Submissions (none)
Date: 2004-10-19
This document describes a methodology for testing the operation,
administration and maintenance (OA&M) of a general VPN service, that is
applied here to Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN Services (HVPLS) as
described in [VPLS]. As part of this methodology, the MPLS ping concepts
described in [LSP-PING] are extended to enable HVPLS spoke- to-spoke
connectivity testing. The approaches to identifying OAM packets has also
been made compatible with [LSP-PING] and [PWE3-VCCV]. These are the goals
of this draft: - checking connectivity between 'service-aware' nodes of a
network, - verifying data plane and control plane integrity, - verifying
service membership There are two specific requirements to which we call
attention because of their seemingly contradictory nature: - the checking
of connectivity MUST involve the ability to use packets that look like
customer packets - the OAM packets MUST not propagate beyond the boundary
of the provider network
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