[c-nsp] Logical Router Segmentation

[Brad Hedlund (brhedlun)]

The term "VRF-Lite" comes from when Cisco started delivering VRF  
capabilities across all Catalyst L3 platforms, even the low end.

Many vendors do support VRF on their high end routers and switches,  
but few have comprehensive VRF support from the high end all the to  
the low end.

MBGP is not required for L3 VPN's. That's the beauty of VRF-Lite end  
to end.  A customer can deploy a handfull of L3 VPN's within their own  
campus without MPLS or BGP.

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Brad Hedlund


On Jan 11, 2009, at 10:20 AM, "Brandon Bennett" <bennetb at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Vrf-lite is just a Cisco term for utilizing VRFs when no MPLS is  
> present.   Any vendor who supports VRFs support "VRF-lite".
>
> In all honesty it's a stupid term as VRF technology isn't tied to  
> MPLS at all.   Yes vrf is required for l3 vpns but so is mBGP and we  
> don't have mBGP-lite :)
>
> -Brandon
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 10, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Brad Hedlund <brhedlun at cisco.com> wrote:
>
>> On 1/10/09 8:57 AM, "Chris Burwell" <cburwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am fairly certain the 8212zl can accomplish what was described  
>>> here,
>>> the problem will be finding documentation on how to configure
>>> everything.
>>
>> Chris,
>> I would be curious to see what you come up with.  The 8212 feature  
>> list on
>> HP's website doesn't show anything similar to VRF-Lite.  I'm pretty  
>> sure
>> VRF-Lite like capabilities are unique to Cisco.  Let me know if you  
>> find
>> otherwise.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Brad Hedlund
>> bhedlund at cisco.com
>> http://www.internetworkexpert.org
>>
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