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[Ajay Simha <asimha@cisco.com>]

On Thu Mar 13 09:25:19 2003, Tommy wrote:
> Hi,
> Could you tell me the connection between ISIS and MPLS?
> Are there some drafts or RFC documents?

There are two places that ISIS and MPLS overlap.

1. ISIS as an IGP in an MPLS core that uses MPLS-TE. This needs the traffic engineering
   extensions of ISIS and is defined in:
   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-isis-traffic-04.txt

2. ISIS as the PE/CE protocol in an MPLS-VPN 
   (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ppvpn-rfc2547bis-03.txt)

Hope this helps.
-ajay

> 
> Any help in this regard will be appreciated!
> Regards.
> Tommy
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ajay Simha" <asimha@cisco.com>
> To: "Yongjun Im" <yjim@lge.com>
> Cc: "John Smith" <jsmith4112003@yahoo.co.uk>; <mpls-ops@mplsrc.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 10:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [MPLS-OPS]: ISIS as CE/PE protocol
> 
> 
> > On Wed Mar 12 18:19:53 2003, Yongjun Im wrote:
> > > I was told that Cisco was planning to support ISIS as CE/PE protocol in BGP/VPN.
> > > AFAIK there have been no internet drafts for that. In addtion, most of the vendors
> > > support RIP as CE/PE protocol in BGP/VPN. Don't we need any standard for that 
> > > like CE/PE OSPF draft?
> > 
> > Cisco has an implementation. I don't see a huge demand for ISIS as a CE/PE protocol as ISIS
> > is primarily run by ISP customers who prefer BGP over ISIS in such cases.
> > -ajay
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > Yongjun.
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "John Smith" <jsmith4112003@yahoo.co.uk>
> > > To: <mpls-ops@mplsrc.com>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 4:22 PM
> > > Subject: [MPLS-OPS]: ISIS as CE/PE protocol
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > draft-rosen-vpns-ospf-bgp-mpls-06.txt defines procedures which must be implemented within
> > > the Provider's network when OSPF is used as the PE/CE routing protocol. Is there any
> > > particular reason why there have been no such standards/procedures defined for running
> > > ISIS as CE/PE protocol in BGP VPN domains.
> > > 
> > > Morever, are there any ISPs actually using ISIS for this purpose?
> > > 
> > > Any help in this regard will be appreciated!
> > > 
> > > Thanks and Regards,
> > > John Smith
> > > 
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