[c-nsp] hsrp/vrrp with mpls vpn's

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Wed Sep 8 04:43:21 EDT 2010


On 09/08/2010 08:13 AM, Sascha Pollok wrote:
>
> This reminds me of a long-time wish that I have that has not been
> satisfied yet :) As I would like to also influence the traffic
> from the backbone to the PE (thus, to connected routes redistributed
> into the IGP) I would like to modify the admin distance or metric for the
> connected routes for a particular interface. So that I can tweak the

This is a much-discussed issue. Search the archives.

In summary: there's no good solution. Since you're running MPLS and the 
traffic is arriving labelled you can in theory play tricks, but it's 
probably best to just live with it. That's how HSRP is supposed to work.


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