[c-nsp] MPLS x-connect to router itself

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

Probably not very relevant, but 7600/ES cards support local connect.

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Tassos

Rubens Kuhl wrote on 27/10/2009 22:28:
> I was wondering if IOS MPLS routers (ME6500 PFC3C in my case) can
> establish an MPLS x-connect to itself, although it's not the IP
> address of router-id but another loopback address added for this
> purpose.
> 
> The idea here is to avoid converting the port to switchport (MUX-UNI
> allow switchport and MPLS x-connects but not routed interfaces and
> switchport on the same physical interface) and to use the "backup
> peer" resource so if the loopback interface have been shutdown to
> force fail-over the router would then connect to another PE to deliver
> the circuit.
> 
> Lab is currently in use by another scenario, and it would also not
> tell me whether this is an IOS or platform limitation.
> 
> Rubens
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