Re: L2VPN over GRE Setup

My advise - Get out of this provider. They have bowl of soup and the only
way they can tunnel you from A to B is using GRE. Most smaller ISP do this
kind of dodgy things.

I bet a CCNA guy is running the teleco backbone :!!! Seen this many time.
It works and they don't want to change it.

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Routing Freak <routingfreak_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi friends,
>
> I have a Customer and Provider set up which is running L2VPN over GRE. I
> cant find the advantages of using L2VPN over GRE. GRE creates a additional
> overhead for all the packets traversing from the pseudowire from ingress PE
> which sends the label for a Attachment circuit to egress PE.
> Why they r running GRE ?
>
> Can anyone came across this kind of set up in your CE to PE side.
> Please do reply me for the benefits.
>
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Received on Sat Nov 26 2011 - 21:17:34 ART