{"draft":"draft-ietf-pwe3-redundancy-09","doc_id":"RFC6718","title":"Pseudowire Redundancy","authors":["P. Muley","M. Aissaoui","M. Bocci"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"18","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"Pseudowire Emulation Edge to Edge","abstract":"This document describes a framework comprised of a number of\r\nscenarios and associated requirements for pseudowire (PW) redundancy.\r\nA set of redundant PWs is configured between provider edge (PE) nodes\r\nin single-segment PW applications or between terminating PE (T-PE)\r\nnodes in multi-segment PW applications.  In order for the PE\/T-PE\r\nnodes to indicate the preferred PW to use for forwarding PW packets\r\nto one another, a new PW status is required to indicate the\r\npreferential forwarding status of active or standby for each PW in\r\nthe redundant set.  This document is not an Internet Standards Track \r\nspecification; it is published for informational purposes.","pub_date":"August 2012","keywords":["Active","standby","protection","dual-homing","vpls","vpws"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC6718","errata_url":null}