12.2. P2MP MPLS LSPs

12.2. P2MP MPLS LSPs

The procedures for using P2MP LSPs are very similar to the VPLS procedures described in [RFC7117]. The P-tunnel attribute used by a PE for sending unknown unicast, broadcast, or multicast traffic for a particular EVPN instance is advertised in the Inclusive Multicast Ethernet Tag route as described in Section 11 ("Handling of Multi-destination Traffic").

The P-tunnel attribute specifies the P2MP LSP identifier. This is the equivalent of an Inclusive tree as described in [RFC7117]. Note that multiple Ethernet tags, which may be in different EVPN instances, may use the same P2MP LSP, using upstream labels [RFC7117]. This is the equivalent of an Aggregate Inclusive tree [RFC7117]. When P2MP LSPs are used for flooding unknown unicast traffic, packet reordering is possible.

The PE that receives a packet on the P2MP LSP specified in the PMSI Tunnel attribute MUST treat the packet as a broadcast, multicast, or unknown unicast packet. Further, if the MAC address is a unicast MAC address, the PE MUST treat the packet as an unknown unicast packet.