[f-nsp] mpls + bgp support on NI CES2K

Aaron Wendel aaron at wholesaleinternet.net
Sat May 11 20:03:59 EDT 2013


Kind if like the RX only being able to do about 300 vlans before it craps out.  Brocade is known to do some weird crippling in their boxes.

On May 11, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:

> On 11/05/2013 23:05, Matt Kassawara wrote:
>> I believe you need the CER to do both BGP and MPLS.
> 
> The CES and CER are the same hardware except for FIB size.
> 
> There was a conscious decision to structure the licensing so that you can't
> run mpls + bgp.
> 
> This means that these boxes are basically useless for mpls PE service
> because among other things they don't support layer 3 vpns properly.
> 
> I am speechless.  This feature cripple is so beyond rational comprehension
> that I have no idea what to say other than wtf.
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
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