[c-nsp] data center/mpls/vpls

[Aaron]

Thanks again Andrew

 

"I would imagine that this number would sky-rocket if you ever started
providing VPNs for your corporate customer, as many of these will not
summarise routes."

 

As I understand multi-area ospf, the abr/ip route summary function has
nothing to do with the customer or edge or ospf area member router, but
rather the abr straddling the multiple areas..so not sure what that customer
router has to do with route summary

 

"My experience is Campus MPLS networks so my experience will be different to
that of ISPs. Also don't forget to double this number to include IPv6
eventually."

 

I'm testing 6VPE (mpls l3vpn ipv6 capable) now..as I see/understand it,
there are zero ipv6 routes in my ipv4 mpls global core.  Adding ipv6 to the
pre-existing customer mpls l3vpn's doesn't add any routes at all to the igp
core.

 

Aaron

 

From: Andrew Miehs [mailto:andrew at 2sheds.de] 
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 9:42 AM
To: Aaron
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] data center/mpls/vpls

 

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Aaron <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:

Q1 - Why do you want MPLS on the top of rack switch?
A1 - L2VPN's...L3VPN's...  Yes, 10 feet away is my Cisco ASR9006 MPLS PE
edge box, so yes I could simply do 802.1q from tor switch to that 9k and
then jump into mpls LxVPN's there.....perhaps this would be a way for me to
keep the cost down on the TOR switch.

 

Cost will be your biggest issue - 5 with fully capable L3/ MPLS switches -
with 5x 10G interfaces.

The cheapest Cisco that can do this would be a 6500. Not too sure about the
HP or Juniper boxes as they didn't have large enough routing tables for use
to keep looking at them. And at $75K you will just be able to afford one of
these.

 

Q2 - Do you need 1G, or 10G interfaces, and how many of them?  Why do you

need 5? Would something like a pair of 5Ks and FEXs not do what you are
after?

A2 - 10G and about 5 of them per switch.  (2) Data Centers, with (2)
cabinets each.  So (4) TOR switches....and we spare one of everything we
have for quick disaster recovery incase of outage.... so 5

 

You should be able to get close to 5 x Nexus 5K with only the basic L2
licenses for that money.

 

 

Q3 - IIRC, the HP 5900s only support 16K routes - which could be a problem
on an MPLS network.
A3 - My MPLS network is just that, mine.  I am a small ISP.  I own the whole
mpls network....currently 209 routes....it will grow, but not to thousands.
And if I do ospf area's and route summarization at area boundaries down the
road, I could probably still keep route table small.

3600#sh ip route summ | in Route|Total
Route Source    Networks    Subnets     Replicates  Overhead    Memory
(bytes)
Total           4           209         0           12900       47784

 

I would imagine that this number would sky-rocket if you ever started
providing VPNs for your corporate customer, as many of these will not
summarise routes.

My experience is Campus MPLS networks so my experience will be different to
that of ISPs. Also don't forget to double this number to include IPv6
eventually.

 

 

Q3.1 - Can't you just trunk the various VLANs back to a PE/ pair of PEs?
A3.1 - yes, I could.... should I?  Would you/you all prefer mpls to the ToR
edge to jump into and out of mpls LxVPN's right there?  Or is it not worth
paying for?  Seems reminiscent of ATM....and the powers realized by getting
atm closer and closer to the edge...but then always wondering, perhaps I
could simply just vlan into the atm lane elan/pvc/pvp and be done with it.
Hmmmm

 

I don't know of any box capable of 5x 10G with MPLS which costs $75K / 5 ...


I would rather trunk back to your ASR9000 and home directly into the correct
MPLS VPN compared to VRF lite on a L3 switch, and THEN back to the AS9000...

Saves you a L3 hop, and a lot of mucking about with VRF lite - for no gain
that I can see....

 

 

Q4 - I think the QFX will be too expensive for your budget. IIRC, the

EX4500s also have the not enough routes supported issue....

A4 - 209 routes currently.  I see EX4550 does mpls.  Don't know how much it
costs though...gonna talk to Juniper this morning in webex.  Is ex4550 a
good box?

 

I haven't played with any of the Juniper kit so I don't know how reliable it
now is. 

 

Good luck.

 

 

Andrew