[c-nsp] Hiding MPLS L3VPN hops from the CE

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Thu Aug 26 08:36:48 EDT 2010


Hi,

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 07:52:37AM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> What am I missing?  After you folks gave me the pointer on no
> mpls ip propagate-ttl forwarded, I quickly discovered that tracing
> from the PE still provides visibility for NMS / support staff.
> Are you saying that if your NMS / support staff also manage the
> CE?  If so, then yes - I take it back.

I'm the customer (and we're an ISP, so we know how to read traceroute/mtr).

Our uplink ISP is using TTL hiding, *and* they can't get their act together
to diagnose and fix their network problems without our help.  Which we
can't give them, due to TTL hiding... 

gert
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