[c-nsp] Customer VRF on Loopback

[msprouffske]

Thanks for all the replies everyone. I now understand.

Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S™III, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphoneAndrew Miehs <andrew at 2sheds.de> wrote:I have seen this done on PEs so that if the link to the customer goes down, part of the VRF is still reachable on that PE.

Andrew


On 24/07/2012, at 8:25 AM, Michael Sprouffske wrote:

> I'm having a hard time understanding exactly why you need to create a loopback interface and associate that with a customer vrf. Could someone please list out a couple reasons and examples why this is used and then its not used so I have a better understanding.