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[whanson]

Can someone direct me to documentation on what the route distinguisher x:y means and route-target commands...thx

[ajagadee]

Bill,

Please refer the below URL for information on both RD and RT.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1830/products_feature_guide09186a00800e977b.html#wp18411

Regards,

Arul

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[scottmac]

Thanks for the link!

I searched for this thing several times and apparently couldn't come up with the right search terms.

Happy Holidays!

Scott

[whanson]

thanks much.

Bill

[bvsnarayana03]

Dear Friend,

In MPLS, a No of customers might be terminating on same PE router & running BGP with ISP backbone. These customers may be using same private IP address within their organisations. To make each customers IP add unique, a 64bit address is added to 32 bit existing IP address. This combination is called route-distinguisher & is 96bit in length.

Route-target is again a 64bit identifier that uniquely identifies each customer VPN.

This is very short explanation. details can go up to a few pages.