The 7705 SAR supports SDPs of type LDP with far-end options using IPv6 addresses. The addresses need not be of the same family (IPv6 or IPv4) for the SDP configuration to be allowed. The user can have an SDP with an IPv4 (or IPv6) control plane for the T-LDP session and an IPv6 (or IPv4) LDP FEC as the tunnel.
Because IPv6 LSP is only supported with LDP, the use of a far-end IPv6 address is not allowed with a BGP or RSVP/MPLS LSP. In addition, the CLI does not allow an SDP with a combination of an IPv6 LDP LSP and an IPv4 LSP of a different control plane. As a result, the following commands are blocked in the SDP configuration context when the far end is an IPv6 address:
bgp-tunnel
lsp
mixed-lsp-mode
SDP admin groups are not supported with an SDP using an LDP IPv6 FEC, and the attempt to assign them is blocked in CLI.
Services that use the LDP control plane (such as T-LDP VPLS and R-VPLS, VLL, and IES/VPRN spoke interface) have the spoke SDP (PW) signaled with an IPv6 T-LDP session when the far-end option is configured to an IPv6 address. By default, the spoke SDP for these services binds to an SDP that uses an LDP IPv6 FEC that matches the prefix of the far end address.
In addition, the IPv6 PW control word is supported with data plane packets and VCCV OAM packets. Hash label is also supported with the above services, including the signaling and negotiation of hash label support using T-LDP (Flow sub-TLV) with the LDP IPv6 control plane. Finally, network domains are supported in VPLS.