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Hello Experts,I am a lot confused about the different types of optics and media types. I will try to list some of my confusions:I think when we say "optics", it means the same thing as transceivers...sfp,sfp+ etc are kind of transceivers, right?Is me...
I read http://blog.ipexpert.com/2010/11/08/bgp-peering-and-default-routes/ and understood that BGP speaker will not initiate BGP connection with the other BGP router if it can reach it via default route only...And BGP peering will not come up at all ...
What is the purpose of "mpls ip" global command? I think just enabling mpls on an interface by using "mpls ip" should be sufficient, but then what is the purpose of the global level command?
I read that if next-hop of a route in VRF is known via global routing table, then it is normal and connection will work..Why is it so? Shouldn't the next-hop also be known in same VRF? Please suggest.
I am confused about the use case of bgp inject-maps. If the goal is to inject specific prefixes, then why not just add an ip route <network> <next-hop> statement for more specific prefix (so that the specific prefix appears in routing table) and then...
That makes sense, but I am still confused. I was reading article http://blog.ipexpert.com/2009/09/16/mpls-l3-vpn/ where the author has used both global as well as interface level commands. Interface level would not have been needed at all if global ...
That's what my question was about, why do we need "mpls ip" global command at all (when we anyways have to enable mpls on interface level separately)...What is the point of global command?
