[c-nsp] FAT PW between 7600 - ASR9K

[George Giannousopoulos]

Thanks for your feedback

Oliver, since the documentation is very very limited, I'd appreciate if you
could provide some info on how each PE will identify the flow labels.
Is there a predefined range that is used only for the flow labels as Phil
previously mentioned?

George



On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) <
oboehmer at cisco.com> wrote:

> >
> >
> >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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