Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-stokes-vkompella-ppvpn-hvpls-oam-02.txt

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Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 11:30:22 -0400

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	Title		: Testing Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN Services
	Author(s)	: O. Stokes et al.
	Filename	: draft-stokes-vkompella-ppvpn-hvpls-oam-02.txt
	Pages		: 29
	Date		: 2003-7-3
	
This document describes a methodology for testing the
operation, administration and maintenance (OA&M) of a general
VPN service, that is applied here to Hierarchical Virtual
Private LAN Services (HVPLS) as described in [VPLS].  As part
of this methodology, the MPLS ping concepts described in [LSP-
PING] are extended to enable HVPLS spoke-to-spoke connectivity
testing.  A method to provide the information necessary for
this spoke-to-spoke OA&M is also proposed.
These are the goals of this draft:
-   checking connectivity between 'service-aware'
nodes of a network,
-   verifying data plane and control plane integrity,
-   verifying service membership
There are two specific requirements to which we call attention
because of their seemingly contradictory nature:
-   the checking of connectivity MUST involve the
ability to use packets that look like customer
packets
-   the OAM packets MUST not propagate beyond the
boundary of the provider network

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