[c-nsp] tag-switching advertise-tags for?

Jon Lewis jlewis at lewis.org
Mon Oct 24 13:51:53 EDT 2005


On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) wrote:

> Jon Lewis <> wrote on Monday, October 24, 2005 7:14 PM:
>
>> If I wanted to use MPLS/tag-switching only for the transport of MPLS
>> VPN traffic, leaving all other IP traffic routed rather that
>> tag-switched, could I use some invocation of tag-switching
>> advertise-tags for do this?
>
> yes:
>
> no tag-switching advertise-tags
> tag-switching advertise-tags for ACL
>
> where ACL matches all your PE's loopbacks used for BGP next-hops.

You're saying LDP across all our routers needs these as destinations to be 
able to properly tag-switch the labeled MPLS VPN traffic?

This sounds like it would in some ways simplify my network and enable me 
to get policy routing working.

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