[nsp] MPLS question

[Bruce Pinsky]

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Pete Templin wrote:

| (Apologies for my lack of experience with MPLS, but I've got a question
| that will impact how much we can do with MPLS.)
|
| As I begin to grasp the concept of a VRF, is it possible for a PE router
| to telnet to a CE router?  We might be able to make wonderful use of
| MPLS VPNs, but we provide managed CPE which we'd still want to telnet to.
|
| Thanks for the help.
|

Yes, a PE router can telnet/ssh to a CE router.  Several of the large MPLS
VPN providers that I know of also run provider-managed CE routers.   Many
of the commands like traceroute, ping, telnet, ssh, etc have an option to
specify the source VRF.


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