Can I use MPLS Traffic Engineering with IPv6?

Wondering how to reap the benefits of MPLS Traffic Engineering features with IPv6? Expert Ivan Pepelnjak has your answer.

Ivan Pepelnjak

MPLS does not support IPv6 -- yet. Neither LDP nor MPLS Traffic Engineering (MPLS TE) interact with IPv6. To benefit from the MPLS features (for example, BGP-free network core, fast recovery with Fast Reroute or Traffic Engineering), you have to transport IPv6 across an MPLS-enabled IPv4 core. To offer public IPv6 services, you should use the 6PE technology (as described in RFC 4798, "Connecting IPv6 Islands over IPv4 MPLS Using IPv6 Provider Edge Routers"); if you want to offer IPv6 VPN services, use 6VPE technology (as described in RFC 4659).

This was last published in March 2010

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