[manet] Re: Routers with multiple DLEP modems

Hi Brian

The terms VPN and Multi-tenant come to mind.  RFC 7364 has some terminology that might help you.

Regards
Don


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From: Sipos, Brian J.
Sent: Monday, May 5, 2025 9:51 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [manet] Routers with multiple DLEP modems


All,

I am looking for any existing terminology to discuss a situation where a single DLEP router has established sessions to multiple DLEP modems, each operating in separate isolated address spaces. Each address space has many modems and routers which are or can be aware of each other (in a time varying way), and there is no cross-over of visibility between the address spaces.



The DLEP spec itself discusses operating within a data plane “Layer 2 domain” but the term I’m looking for is more related to the control-plane aspect of “a collection of DLEP routers and modems which can be aware of each other both at layer-2 and layer-3”. Is calling this a “DLEP domain” a reasonable and non-colliding use of the term?



The overall idea being that some DLEP router is a participant in several DLEP domains, each operating separately from each other so the modems don’t have cross-domain visibility but the router is aware of all of them together.



Thanks for any advice or pointers,

Brian S.



[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8175.html

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