[c-nsp] 12000 & EoMPLS

[Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)]

Nikos Leontsinis <mailto:nikos at oteglobe.net> wrote on Wednesday, March
09, 2005 3:07 PM:

> Imagine 2 cisco 12000 directly connected via a STM4 interface, you
> want on each end to connect a CE in such a way as to create an
Ethernet
> Pseudowire and carry Ethernet/802.3 Protocol Data Units over the MPLS
network.
> In this  scenario the 12000 is both a PE and P (using engine 3). Is
that
> possible or  you need to have other routers on the edge and have the
12000 act as P
> routers?

No, this will work just fine. So you have

CE1 -- GSR1 -- GSR2 -- CE2

right? no problem w/ Engine3.

	oli

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> #From: Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) [mailto:oboehmer at cisco.com]
> #Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 3:28 PM
> #To: nikos at oteglobe.net
> #Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> #Subject: RE: [c-nsp] 12000 & EoMPLS
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> #
> #> Anyone knows if the 12000 series support PE & P FUNCTIONALITY (on
> the #> same box) on the EoMPLS service?
> #> As far as I know, in the 7600 services you cannot have a layer 2
> #> connection between PEs with Ethernet over MPLS. In other words the
> #> 7600 can only act as PE. Does the same hold for the 12000?
> #
> #Don't really understand your question. What do you want to achieve?
> Can #you describe the topology in more detail?
> #
> #	oli
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