03-27-2008 08:46 AM
from the diagram cisco B is having loopback which is advertised by cisco C as label of 45 but the same is advertised by Maipu A as label of implicit null to Maipu B.
Load balacing is done between cisco C -> Cisco A and Maipu A -> Cisco A.
My question is that why cisco C router is advertised by some label .As per cisco it should do the PHP and advertise the loopback of cisco B router to Maipu B with impicit null. But it is not performing. Please provide the solution and send ur comments.
regards
shivlu
03-27-2008 09:09 AM
Hi shivlu,
Can you provide the output from "show mpls ldp binding" and "show ip route" from the routers Maipu A and cisco C?
The implicit null label by default is allocated to directly connected networks on MPLS enabled routers. As such I would not assume that any MPLS enabled router in your diagram would choose imp-null for the Loopback network of router cisco B unless there is some summarization configured.
Regards, Martin
03-27-2008 09:54 AM
Shivlu,
This can happen if Maipu A has a static route to Cisco B loopback interface address and this route is considered directly connected (i.e. pointing to the physical interface towards Cisco A rather than IP address).
Regards,
03-27-2008 10:02 AM
Shivlu,
I just forgot to mention that the behavior exhibited by Cisco C is correct. This router does not send an implicit null label has it is not connected to the advertized FEC.
Maipu A does advertize an implicit null because it thinks it is connected to the FEC because of the static route being considered directly connected.
Regards,
03-28-2008 08:44 AM
hritter and mheusing
Thanks for your quick reply.But in my network we are using the OSPF. So there is not static route is configured on Maipu A for Cisco B.
As per RFC 3031 implicit null is advertised to the peer only when it sends a request to the peer. So in my scenario can it be possible that Maipu B and cisco C are not sync.
regards
shivlu
03-28-2008 08:49 AM
Shivlu,
Could you please provide a "show ip route
Regards,
03-28-2008 09:18 AM
Cisco-C#sh mpls forwarding-table Cisco-B 32
Local Outgoing Prefix Bytes tag Outgoing Next Hop
tag tag or VC or Tunnel Id switched interface
1897 Untagged Cisco-B/32 3765674 Gi0/1.21 x-x-x-x
Maipu-A#sh mpls forwarding-table | i Cisco-B
L global Cisco-B/32 5253 3 gigaethernet0.48
regards
shivlu
03-28-2008 09:23 AM
Shivlu,
As stated before, it is normal behavior for Cisco C to advertise a label different than implicit null.
What I would like to see is the other side (Maipu A). "show mpls for Cisco-B 32" and "show ip route Cisco-B" from Maipu A would be really helpful.
Regards,
03-29-2008 08:27 AM
hritter thanks for your reply. We had a word with maipu and might be problem at their end.
regards
shivlu
03-29-2008 08:40 AM
Cisco B address was also configured on Maipu A ;-)
Regards,
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