Re: PE-IG question

From: Eric Osborne (eosborne@cisco.com)
Date: Sun Nov 26 2000 - 09:55:01 EST


On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 09:05:27AM -0500, kevin Young wrote:

> i read the networker 2000 presetation about MPLS VPN, it said VPN
> user access internet may through two method, one is VRF default
> route and another is sub-interface. i see they both use the PE-IG
> (Internet Gateway), it's puzzled me, the PE-IG is a PE? or a normal
> Internet Router? the VPN packet arrive the PE-IG, how to go into
> internet?

You mean http://www/networkers/nw00/pres/#2202 ?
There's nothing special about a PE-IG; that's just a term we used to
connote a device which can provide global Internet access to VPN
customers.

Although my copy has not arrived yet, I suspect that
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1587050021/o/qid=975250438/sr=8-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_3/107-0242712-6726909

will answer your question about how VPN<->Internet interworking works
in far more detail than I feel like going into now. :)

eric



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