The MPLS WG Archive

[Juha Heinanen <jh@lohi.eng.telia.fi>]

Jim Guichard writes:

 > it seems to me that as the SP part of the picture is MPLS (as opposed to
 > ATM) then the DTE to DCE part of the VC (PE to CE) is essentially unchanged
 > and therefore such mechanisms as lmi and inverse-arp should continue to
 > function as-is. 

exactly, as i said earlier:

 > >as long as the ce-pe protocol remains fr or atm and mpls is used only in
 > >the provider network, there should be no changes whatsoever to the above
 > >described ce operation.

this case just needs to be covered in the i-d as well as the trickier
case when ce-pe protocol is mpls.

-- juha