[c-nsp] inet vrf

Tim Durack tdurack at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 13:12:37 EDT 2010


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Murphy, William
<William.Murphy at uth.tmc.edu> wrote:
> The problem for me is that the 6500 seems to do it even if you don't have
> MPLS enabled.  The fact that you are running BGP inside VRF causes it to
> generate labels.  If I can run IGP inside VRF why then does BGP running
> inside VRF automatically assuming we want to do MPLS or L3VPN?  More to the
> root of your question, the problem for me is TCAM consumption and there is
> some label scanning process that is adding about 20% utilization to my CPU.
> I am carrying full I1 routes and that is a lot of labels.

I would suggest reading this link:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/mpls/configuration/guide/mp_vpn_per_vrf_lbl_ps6922_TSD_Products_Configuration_Guide_Chapter.html

It says SR, but seems to apply to SX also.

This addresses the EBGP per-prefix label allocation I experienced.

-- 
Tim:>



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