[c-nsp] VRF question

[Rodney Dunn]

You can do MPLS without VRF's.

You really don't buy yourself anything doing
MPLS in your scenario.  It just adds another
level of complexity to the mix so I wouldn't
do it.

You would do MPLS when you need something like:
VPN's
To take BGP out of the core
TE

You don't have either of those so you probably
shouldn't mess with it.

The raw switching improvement isn't that much at
all anyway and once you do MPLS you can't do
a lot of other features that are done on IP
packets so you lose some functionality.

Rodney


On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:35:43PM +0300, jcvaraillon at dolnet.gr wrote:
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> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a backbone of four routers:
> 
>         2 Border routers connected to two differnet ISPs,
>         2 internal routers in the same LAN as the border routers.
>         Each internal router is a route-reflector client of one border router.
>         There is an iBGP between the border router.
>         OSPF is running amon the four routers, on that LAN.
> 
> Would it be an improvment to set-up a VRF between each routers?
> Would this allow me to use the fast switching method of MPLS ?
> 
> Any comment/suggestion are welcom.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Christophe
> 
> 
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