[c-nsp] FAT PW between 7600 - ASR9K

Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) oboehmer at cisco.com
Fri Nov 1 02:42:39 EDT 2013


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> 
>Does anyone have experience with FAT PW between 7600 and ASR9K?
>
>The ASR9K supports it for sure and it has been verified.
>The 7600, according to the doc, supports it only for VPLS with the
>addition
>of a global command "platform vfi load-balance-label vlan xxxx".
>
>We have implemented all the above, the pseudowires come up, but the flow
>label capability is not negotiated between 7600-ASR9K.
>
>Apart from that, there is no traffic flow over the pseudowires in the
>direction 7600->ASR9K.
>After we remove the "platform vfi load-balance-label vlan xxxx" command
>from the 7600, traffic starts flowing.

looks like the 7600 doesn't support signalled FAT PW today, hence you need
to configure static flow-label ("load-balancing flow-label both static")
on the ASR9k peer.

	oli




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