Mpls through a non mpls switch

[Jventri]

I'm looking to deploy an MPLS network with nexus 7000 as a transition I was thinking about peering through a non mpls aware switch at layer2. I just wanted to make sure I think this would be ok that the switch shouldnt strip the labels but wanted to double check

[Adam Vitkovsky]

Just make sure (via config) that the switch does not poke into any headers above L2.

Switches doing clever hashing based on L3 or MPLS is just asking for trouble and dropped packets.

(I think it was a problem with some nexus L2 switches that someone posted recently where the switch was attempting to load-balance and the MPLS traffic was actually L2VPN and switch failed miserably dropping packets).

adam