Indeed I would love to use MPLS, but I only have an IP transport between sites available. So it MUST go over IP.

I completely agree that the whole thing is rather nasty

I understand that EoIP is not.. Ideal. But I need to transport Ethernet over IP and do it with fragmentation and resammembly of full size (1500 byte) frames inside the tunnel. VPLS etc would be perhaps nicer, but then I need to use Ethernet over MPLS over (insert tunneling mechanism here) over IP, w...

I have a requirement to terminate a large number (thousands) of EoIP tunnels at a central location. I am thinking about using x86 blades to terminate the tunnels and RBs at the edge for the users. Has anybody used EoIP on this scale? Is there any reason I could not configure say 1000 or so EoIP tunn...