[c-nsp] MLPPP and ip load-sharing per-packet

[Rodney Dunn]

If the traffic comes in IP and you have PBR enabled on
that interface it should be policy routed. If it isn't
that's a bug in my opinion.

Rodney

On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 03:58:57PM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Rodney Dunn wrote:
> 
> > Oh what code is this?
> >
> > We don't support MPLS over a MLPPP bundle on all codes.
> >
> > That's one of the SB deliverables.
> 
> How about policy routing on interfaces doing tag-switching?  i.e. I'd like 
> some packets arriving on a P router's interface doing tag-switching to be 
> policy routed.  That doesn't appear to be supported in 12.2S either.
> 
> Policy routing from a non-tag-switching interface to another 
> non-tag-switching interface on a P/PE router works...but when I tried to 
> configure policy routing of return traffic (to that customer) a hop away 
> from the PE, that P router simply wouldn't do it.
> 
> Since I can't do CEF on MLPPP + tag-switching, and I can't policy route 
> around that, I've fallen back to plan C (lots of individual T1's with 
> per-destination).  If that doesn't give the performance we need, I'm 
> considering plan D (turn off OSPF on 1 T1 between the P and PE, and use 
> static routes (and perhaps route-maps to keep these out of OSPF) on each 
> end to get my VOIP traffic to ride the "dedicated path").
> 
> Its kind of annoying when features normally taken for granted don't work 
> when too many are mixed together.
> 
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