[c-nsp] Internet inside a VRF?

Jose Madrid jmadrid2 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 13 21:17:49 EDT 2012


I would like to understand why you guys would do this? What is the
reasoning behind this? Super granular control? Cant this level of
granularity be achieved with route-maps?

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On Mar 13, 2012, at 8:27 PM, Dan Armstrong <dan at beanfield.com> wrote:

> We have all our Internet peers and customers inside a VRF currently, and our Cisco SE thinks we're stark raving mad, and should redesign and put everything back in the global table.
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> This is all on ASR 9Ks and 7600s.
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> On 2012-03-13, at 8:12 PM, Pshem Kowalczyk wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> On 14 March 2012 11:59, Dan Armstrong <dan at beanfield.com> wrote:
>>> I know this topic has been discussed a million times, but just wanted to get an updated opinion on how people are feeling about this:
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>>> In a service provider network, how do people feel about putting the big Internet routing table, all their peers and customers inside a VRF?  Keep the global table for just infrastructure links…
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>> In my previous role we've done just that. One internet VRF for all
>> transit functions, separate vrfs for peering and customers and
>> import-export statements to tie them all together. All done on ASR1k
>> (mainly 1006, but a few of 1002 as well).
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>> kind regards
>> Pshem
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