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[Ajay Simha <asimha@cisco.com>]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Balaji Chandrasekaran wrote:

>BC:Hello,
>BC:
>BC:Is there any Service Provider who is providing or planning to provide
>BC:Outbound Internet Connectivity Service.

Sure. Lots of them.
>BC:
>BC:Can that be considered as a vulnerable point for all customers using it
>BC:because it connects to the Internet.

You can have a centralized Internet gateway that the PEs default route to.
This gateway can then go out on a firewall to the Internet. This does not
compromise the PEs especially if you turn off TTL propagation in the MPLS core
and PE routers for forwarding.

-ajay

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