Re: [nsp] MPLS PE following a default ?

From: Eric Osborne (eosborne@cisco.com)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 12:41:35 EST


On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:29:44PM -0000, Kevin Gannon wrote:
> I have an odd question:
>
> 1. We want to provide PE type functionailty at customer sites
> by providing seperate ethernet interfaces in seperate VRFs.
> A bit like vrf lite but we need upto to ten VRFs so we want to
> deploy large boxes and configure them as PE's.
>
> 2. However we want to link these customer PEs to aggregation PEs
>
> 3. To scale the routing we want the customer PE's to just have a
> static default pointing upto the aggregation PE.
>
>
> 0/0----------------------><Full
> Routing-------------------------------------------><-------------0/0
> CustPE--------------Agg.PE---------------Core------------------------Agg.PE-
> -------CustPE

Not sure what to make of your picture after it goes through
linewrap...:)

>
> My question is will the Cust PE tag the customer traffic with a label to get
> the
> trafic to the Agg PE by following the default router and then will the label
> be popped
> off and another L3 lookup be done and a new tag attached to get the traffic
> to the
> destination Agg PE.

So something like

CE---PE1----PE2---P---( cloud )
      ^ ^
    cust PE |
            agg PE

??

If you're talking a vrf-lite-like scenario, then that means packets
are going from PE1 to PE2 unlabeled. If that's the case, they'll
follow the default route just like any other route. If you're talking
about label exchange of some sort between PE1 and PE2, there's a few
ways you can do that; we'd have to talk about more specifics, but in
general there's no provisions that a default route is treated
differently than any other route.

eric
 
  

>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
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