[c-nsp] Upgrading older 7600 with an ASR1000 router.. Questions..

[Mark Tinka]

You are going to awaken Gert from his slumber with this heresy :-)...

At any rate, you are looking for the EVC/EFP configuration context,
which is what will work on IOS XE/ASR1000.

Mark.

On 19/Dec/19 03:28, Howard Leadmon wrote:
>  I know a while back I had asked about replacing an old 7606/RSP720 I
> had handling routing, and I got some great info from the group that
> was much appreciated.    I ended picking up an ASR1000 series router
> to use in place of the 7606, or so I thought, I am wondering now if I
> actually still need both.
>
>  The 7606 handled both Layer 2 and Layer 3 functions fairly well for
> us, for a great many years, and I guess I just got very used to this
> fact.  The one thing that always worked really well was that we had a
> bunch of Ethernet multi-point links from providers like Zayo and
> Comcast that interconnected a bunch of our different locations, as
> they were L2, I simply setup a tag that ran to a location and off it
> went.   Most of the remote locations are all 4500 series switches, so
> using L2 trunks made this just work.   So on the 7606, I had trunks to
> the various providers, as well as local trunks to some of the other
> switches in the racks,  my transit links, and a few clients.
>
>  So enter the ASR1000 and I thought great, this is a simple change as
> I should just be able to copy most of my 7600 configs across into the
> ASR and life will be good.   The I went to setup a trunked port to
> bring the existing equipment into the new ASR.   Surprise, unlike the
> old 7600 there is no turning a port in the ASR into a switchport, or
> not that I can find, so it looks very much like it's an L3 device for
> the most part.   Well that sure blows up all the vlan
> interfaces/trunks that were in the 7600 that will not transfer into
> the ASR.
>
>  I am wondering if I need to keep the old 7606 in service to handle
> the L2 trunking terminations and pasthroughs, and just setup
> sub-interfaces on the ASR to handle any of the needed L3's connections
> that need to do routing via the ASR, like all of our transit and
> peering links?
>
>  I actually have a couple L2 trunks, where some of the VLAN's are L3
> connections that I picked up on a VlanXX interface locally, but at the
> same time I also  have other L2 Vlan's that needed to come in one
> port, and then head back out another port to a different device.  I
> have googled around a bit, but heck if I see anyway to do this mixed
> environment on the ASR, where on my old 7600 it just worked, and has
> worked well for a great many years.   Heck the main reason I am
> ditching the old 7606 workhorse is that as we all know carrying full
> routing tables to multiple providers, well it's getting very long in
> the tooth without cutting out some routes.
>
>  I am sure some here have had to deal with something like this at some
> point, so I hope someone can toss me some suggestions or insight on
> the best way to handle this, or do I just delegate the new ASR as just
> a BGP router, and still pass it all back through the old 7600 for now.
>
> Thanks as always for any input on how to approach this task..
>
>  
> ---
> Howard Leadmon
> PBW Communications, LLC
> http://www.pbwcomm.com
>
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