Patent Document ID: 9049133
Application ID: 13927350
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: establishing, by a device in a computer network, one or more point-to-point (P2P) services between attachment circuits on provider edge (PE) devices in the computer network; associating each of the one or more P2P services with an Ethernet virtual private network (E-VPN) Ethernet Auto-Discovery (A-D) route, wherein links between the PE devices and customer edge (CE) devices are configured as Ethernet interfaces with tagging; setting an Ethernet Tag field to 0 for Ethernet Private Line (EPL) services and to a virtual local area network (VLAN) identifier associated with a particular service for Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) service; exchanging the Ethernet A-D route for each P2P service attachment circuit; and performing forwarding on the one or more P2P services without performing a media access control (MAC) address lookup and without performing MAC learning.