MPLS

Hey Guys,We currently have several remote sites that connect back to our core (7206vxr) via p2p t1's. One Site connects back to us via MetroE. All Sites are setup under 1 vrf. The sites that have t1's can ping each other with no problem even bumpi...

Guys can someone please help me out as i cant get my head around MPLS terminologies......they say that FIB is derived from CEF and it sth etable which is mapping of network to lables (as in CEF its network to MAC) now LIB is mapping of lable to labl...

When deploying a new MPLS backbone for a Service Provider, what will be consider the best practices in general? For example what about the following list and any other items:- Define the Internet as a VRF?- Use private ASNs?- Define a VRF per special...

Does anyone have any experience with using 2 MPLS carriers for load balancing. We'd like to have a primary MPLS network with ATT and then a backup MPLS network with MCI. But rather than use MCI strictly for backup we'd like to load balance traffic ...

Guys,I am trying to setup a POC lab for a MVPN Customer. The network is fairly simple in Streaming PC -> PE -> P -> PE -> Receiver PC. I am running pim sparse mode on all core and access devices. Can anybody tell me , is there any specific commands t...

Hello,shown on 33 page of RFC4364, for inter-AS Mpls VPN, if the /32 host routes are unknown by the ASes, it need 3 labels, who can give an example to explain how the 3 labels works.thanks in advance If the /32 routes for the PE routers are m...

Hi,I have a provider that serves me a 100mb/s Ethernet port, Single VLAN, between two locations. They block important traffic to me like STP BPDU's, VTP etc..What technology can I use to take everything, STP, VLANs, Multicast etc.. and encapsulate it...

hi all ,I'm newbie in mpls and i've the following questionlet's say i've 2 CE connected on the same PE in two different VRF interf.Can i import/export rte target from one vrf to another ?(In my understanding , import/export are linked to bgp communit...

Hi Guys,Is it recommended to have a bootflash of ver 12.3 and IOS of 12.4??!?!secondly does anybody knows if it's possible to upgrade the size of bootflash for NPE-400/2FE?While I've 8MB of bootflash and running 12.3 but I cant load any recent 12.4 h...

Hi, I have an issue within an MPLS vrf. I can ping the loopback on a router in the vrf but not any Vi's connected to it. I can see the routes for the Vi in the vrf route table. These two routers are route reflector clients. I can however connect to ...

Hi allPlease bare with me, i know a lot has been written about what VPLS is, I have read the postings, but maybe someone can in simple terms answer my qn for me;Why should one go for VPLS and not L3 VPNs or L3 VPNs and not VPLS, i need arguments from...

Hi,How does multiple default and multiple specific route work in MPLS platform. Example for multiple default toure, 2 internet gateways (HK and NY)- Asia sites drain out through HK and Americas sites drain out through NY. I roughly know that it has s...

Hi,I want to learn how many simultaneous T-LDP sessions are supported on 7600 platform. we'll terminate lots of ATM/ETH PWs on 7600 and we need to know how many of them can be terminated on a single 7600 chassis?thanksregardsM.Berkin KARTALTurkcell I...