[f-nsp] l2 pseudowire with between ASNs

[Romain DEGEZ]

Hi

Le 21/08/2012 22:24, chip a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
>    I have a situation in which I'd like to encapsulate packets coming
> in on an 802.1q sub int on a Cisco 7600 and drop them into a VLAN on a
> Brocade XMR.  The two routers are in two different ASNs and do not
> have an IGP.  The two routers are directly connected to each other and
> only speak via eBGP.    I've got  the "send-label" on the cisco side
> and "next-hop-mpls" on the brocade side.   It appears that I have and
> LDP session but I'm not seeing labels and the
> vll/xconnect/vc/pseudowire isn't up.   The interface e1/1 on the
> brocade side is a trunked port going down to other distribution
> switches and eventually a server that sits in vlan 3000.  I apologize
> for my ignorance here, still learning all the moving pieces.

The answer is in your debug messages:

 > telnet at tsr1.TEST006#sho mpls vll detail
 > VLL b1_tsr1, VC-ID 100, VLL-INDEX 0
 >
 >    End-point        : tagged  vlan 3000  e 1/1
 >    End-Point state  : Up
 >    MCT state        : None
 >    IFL-ID           : --
 >    Local VC type    : tag
 >    Local VC MTU     : 1500
 >    COS              : --
 >    Extended Counters: Enabled
 >
 >    Vll-Peer         : 10.100.119.134
 >      State          : DOWN - no tunnel LSP to vll-peer

--> You need an LSP to be up and running between the two routers. (actually too, 
one in each way)

Have you even bother reading the brocade docs ?

(hint: 
http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/product_manuals/B_NetIron/NetIronUnified_05300a_ConfigGuide.pdf 
)

-- 
RD