I-D ACTION:draft-nalawade-kapoor-tunnel-safi-05.txt

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	Title		: BGP Tunnel SAFI
	Author(s)	: G. Nalawade, et al.
	Filename	: draft-nalawade-kapoor-tunnel-safi-05.txt
	Pages		: 14
	Date		: 2006-6-29

There is a growing requirement for network operators to support
multi-address familiy routing and forwarding services across their
backbone networks. In general this is accomplished by constructing a
mesh of tunnels between the backbbone provider edge routers and then
advertising reachability to prefixes through specific tunnels. This
document defines a new subsequence address family identifier
associated with a tunnel end-point information. This enables a single
egress provider edge router to use the border gateway protocol as a
scalable and efficient means to distribute its tunnel end-point
information to many ingress provider edge routers. The result is that
the mesh of tunnels is in place and packets can be forwarded through
these tunnels based on advertised reachability.

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