{
  "number": 4761,
  "title": "Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using BGP for Auto-Discovery and Signaling",
  "authors": [
    "K. Kompella, Ed.",
    "Y. Rekhter, Ed."
  ],
  "published": "2007-01",
  "status": "Proposed Standard",
  "stream": "IETF",
  "area": "rtg",
  "working_group": "l2vpn",
  "pages": 28,
  "formats": [
    "TXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "abstract": "Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS), also known as Transparent LAN Service and Virtual Private Switched Network service, is a useful Service Provider offering. The service offers a Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (VPN); however, in the case of VPLS, the customers in the VPN are connected by a multipoint Ethernet LAN, in contrast to the usual Layer 2 VPNs, which are point-to-point in nature.\n\nThis document describes the functions required to offer VPLS, a mechanism for signaling a VPLS, and rules for forwarding VPLS frames across a packet switched network. [STANDARDS-TRACK]",
  "keywords": [
    "border gateway protocol",
    "transparent lan service",
    "virtual private switched network",
    "service provider"
  ],
  "draft": "draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-bgp-08",
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC4761",
  "updated_by": [
    "RFC5462",
    "RFC8395",
    "RFC8614"
  ],
  "urls": {
    "html": "https://rfc.dk/rfc4761/",
    "text": "https://rfc.dk/rfc4761.txt",
    "rfc_editor": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4761",
    "datatracker": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc4761/"
  },
  "text_modified": "2007-01-10T23:20:06Z"
}