GETVPN over MPLS

[dameon.boyle]

Hi

I have a customer requirement to provide multicast across an MPLS network, the MPLS provider does not support Multicast on the PE hence I need a solution that provides multicast but is implemented on the CE routers only. Looking at GETVPN examples it looks possible, could someone clarify if GETVPN can be implemented on the edge CE routers only without the need to touch the PE routers.

Thanks

[Herbert Baerten]

Hi Dameon,

you can implement GETvpn on the CE routers, but it will not solve your problem as the encrypted multicast packets will still be multicast (i.e. GETvpn does header preservation - it does not alter the source or destination ip address of the packets).

You'll probably want to consider implementing GRE tunnels (with or without 'tunnel protection', i.e. ipsec encryption) if it's only a few sites, or DMVPN.

hth

Herbert