[nsp] MPLS question

[Bruce Pinsky]

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Alexandre Snarskii wrote:

| On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:59:44AM -0600, Pete Templin wrote:
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|>(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.
|
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| cr1#telnet 192.168.0.30 /vrf ?
|   WORD  VPN Routing/forwarding instance name
|
| So, you just need to know address of managed CPE and vrf it belongs to.
|


And I forgot to mention that a mgmt VRF could be created that contained the
routes of the connected interfaces of the PE-CE connections.  That could
provide access to the CE routers from locations other than a PE router that
is aware of the customer's VRF.

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bep

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