[c-nsp] Cisco MPLS interoperability with Mikrotik (or Linux) MPLS

[Allan Eising]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:35:40 -0300, Rubens Kuhl wrote:

> Have anynone done any testing interoperating Cisco MPLS (Cat 6k or 7600
> families) with Mikrotik (which is just packaging of MPLS Linux) ? I'm
> specially curious about EoMPLS and H-VPLS interoperating, but basic
> LDP/RSVP/MPLS-TE/MPLS-FRR also needs to be addressed, of course.
> 
> 
> Rubens
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Hi,

MikroTik works fine against Cisco with their mpls-test and routing-test 
packages.
LDP works fine, and they even got a cisco-style VPLS implementation that 
seem to work fine. Their L3VPN works fine too with OSPF. I haven't tested 
MPLS-TE, but as far as I remember, they don't support RSVP yet.
Also, IPv6 over MPLS doesn't work on MT yet.

As a cheap PE router, the MikroTik works very good, but I advice you to 
test everything thoroughly before implementing anything. Their support 
staff is very forthcoming and in my experience they fix any bug you 
report at an amazing speed!

Allan