Re: [Pals] L2TP sequencing: Commonly disabled for IP data? Or always?

Bob Briscoe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.int,gmane.ietf.pwe3
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Tom, see [BB2]

On 28/06/2021 09:41, tom petch wrote:
> <at the bottom tp>
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> From: Int-area <[email protected]> on behalf of Bob Briscoe <[email protected]>
> Sent: 27 June 2021 22:22
>
> James,
>
> [First apologies to everyone for asking the question then not following
> up on the answers until now - I went off line for a while.]
> See inline tagged [BB]...
>
> On 10/06/2021 13:09, James Bensley wrote:
>> On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 15:57, Derek Fawcus
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 03:07:41PM +0200, James Bensley wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 14:05, Giles Heron <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Re BT specifically (and again my info is outdated and may be mis-remembered) the 20C network used L2TP, and I think it’s an option on 21C for handoff to smaller ISPs.  Should all be in the SINs somewhere?
>>>> I work in the UK ISP sector. I can confirm that L2TP is in wide spread
>>>> use for wholesale services by all major ISPs (except Liberty). I think
>>>> the real question here (unless I've misunderstood) is not "is L2TP
>>>> being used" but "is L2TP being used AND sequencing is being used
>>>> and/or enforced?" - is that understanding correct?
>>> Yes.
>> In that case  - sequencing isn't used for BT Wholesale services.
> [BB] Thank you. It sounds like you have some reason for your certainty
> here. Can you elaborate on what makes you so certain sequencing isn't used?
>
> <tp>
>
> Perhaps  a coincidence or perhaps not, but an I-D has just been posted
> Author          : Yogesh Nautiyal
> Filename        : draft-nautiyal-l2tpext-tunnel-ka-control-channel-00.txt
> which uses L2TP sequencing,  I note the author has an affiliation of Juniper.

[BB] Thanks for pointing this out. It's quite normal and expected for 
L2TP to use its sequencing facility for a control channel. I'm not 
concerned about that. My original question was scoped to IP as data.

But thanks anyway. Cheers


Bob

>
> The draft would need a fair bit of work.
>
> Tom Petch
>
> Bob
>
>> Cheers,
>> James.
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