[c-nsp] 3550 MPLS

[Chris Cappuccio]

sthaug at nethelp.no [sthaug at nethelp.no] wrote:
> > I was playing with MPLS on a 3550 the other day and noticed that it supported
> > the BGP/VRF part of things but not actual label switching.  Is there
> > an equivalent mode to label switching that uses vlan tags instead, or how
> > is this functionality intended to be used on the 3550?
> 
> The 3550 supports "VRF-Lite" which means you can have separate routing
> tables, but *not* actual MPLS labels. One routing table is associated
> with two or more VLAN interfaces.
> 

Does anyone out there do VRF lite with BGP and vlans?  Can the 3550 talk
to a PE router with bgp/vpnv4 (which it will do) but associate a VRF with a
particular vlan?  Or am I going insane?

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