[c-nsp] Logical Router Segmentation

[Derick Winkworth]

Juniper supports it well.  The EX series 1U switches are pretty decent
actually.

But, again... he might be able to get this done without VRFs...

Brad Hedlund (brhedlun) wrote:
> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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