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17.Dd $Mdocdate: April 3 2019 $
18.Dt MPW 4
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm mpw
22.Nd MPLS Ethernet pseudowire
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "pseudo-device mpw"
25.Sh DESCRIPTION
26The
27.Nm
28interface is used to create an MPLS Ethernet layer 2 tunnel between
29two points.
30.Pp
31An
32.Nm
33interface can be created at runtime using the
34.Sy ifconfig Nm Ns Ar N Cm create
35command or by setting up a
36.Xr hostname.if 5
37configuration file for
38.Xr netstart 8 .
39The interface itself can be configured with
40.Xr ifconfig 8 .
41.Pp
42The local MPLS label, the remote MPLS label and neighbor, use of
43pseudowire control words, or flow-aware transport are normally
44configured after negotiation with a remote system using
45.Xr ldpd 8 ,
46but it is also possible to configure them manually using
47.Xr ifconfig 8 .
48.Sh EXAMPLES
49Create a pseudowire with local label 20 and remote label 21 on
50neighbor 10.254.0.1:
51.Bd -literal -offset indent
52# ifconfig mpw5 create
53# ifconfig mpw5 mplslabel 20 pweneighbor 21 10.254.0.1
54# ifconfig mpw5 up
55.Ed
56.Pp
57Enable the use of the Pseudowire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3)
58Control Word, and disable the use of a Flow label for Flow-Aware
59Transport of Pseudowires:
60.Bd -literal -offset indent
61# ifconfig mpw5 pwecw -pwefat
62.Ed
63.Pp
64.Nm mpw
65interfaces may be used to build a Virtual Private LAN Service
66(VPLS) with
67.Xr bridge 4 .
68A VPLS is constructed with a full mesh of MPLS pseudowire tunnels
69between all peers, but this introduces loops in the topology.
70To prevent broadcast packets received from the VPLS being forwarded
71to its peers, all the pseudowire interfaces can be configured to
72enforce the split-horizon forwarding rule by adding them to the
73same protected bridge domain.
74Different VPLS meshes can be joined together on the same bridge
75using different identifiers for their protected domains:
76.Bd -literal -offset indent
77# ifconfig mpw10 create up
78# ifconfig mpw11 create up
79# ifconfig mpw12 create up
80# ifconfig bridge0 create
81# ifconfig bridge0 add em2
82# ifconfig bridge0 add mpw10 add mpw11 add mpw12
83# ifconfig bridge0 protected mpw10 1
84# ifconfig bridge0 protected mpw11 1
85# ifconfig bridge0 protected mpw12 1
86.Ed
87.Sh SEE ALSO
88.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
89.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
90.Xr ldpd 8 ,
91.Xr netstart 8
92.Rs
93.%A S. Bryant
94.%A P. Pate
95.%D March 2005
96.%R RFC 3985
97.%T Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3) Architecture
98.Re
99.Pp
100.Rs
101.%A S. Bryant
102.%A G. Swallow
103.%A L. Martini
104.%D February 2005
105.%R RFC 4385
106.%T Pseudowire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3) Control Word \
107for Use over an MPLS PSN
108.Re
109.Pp
110.Rs
111.%A S. Bryant
112.%A C. Filsfils
113.%A U. Drafz
114.%A V. Kompella
115.%A J. Regan
116.%A S. Amante
117.%D November 2011
118.%R RFC 6391
119.%T Flow-Aware Transport of Pseudowires over an MPLS Packet Switched Network
120.Re
121.Sh HISTORY
122The
123.Nm
124kernel interface first appeared in
125.Ox 5.8 .
126.Sh AUTHORS
127The
128.Nm
129driver was written by
130.An Rafael Zalamena Aq Mt rzalamena@openbsd.org .
131