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

[Erich Hohermuth]

Hi

In my opinion you either buy a cer if you need mpls layer3 or a MLX. 
There are alot of caveats in the configuration and you have to read the 
documentation really carefully cause some features are not compatible. 
The hardware is really limited in terms of routing instances (vrf).


Regards
 Erich

Am Sun May 12 14:44:45 2013 schrieb Nick Hilliard:
> On 12/05/2013 01:14, Jon Maiman wrote:
>> You can do both BGP and MPLS on a CES with the caveat that the FIB size is
>> smaller (as expected). To do both on the CES, you need both the Layer 4
>> Premium and the Metro Edge Premium software upgrade licenses installed on
>> the same switch. The CER licensing model is different.
>
> Jon,
>
> thanks for replying.  Oh my.
>
> I don't know who might have thought that disabling BGP in the MPLS license
> was a good idea, or why.  Perhaps it happened because some product managers
> started to believe that software licenses were about enabling features (the
> vendor viewpoint) rather than disabling them, which is how customers view
> licenses.
>
> Look, whatever.  It's not clear from the brocade web site that if you want
> an mpls device which actually works on actual networks, you need the two
> licenses.
>
> What's more important from Brocade's point of view is that the combined
> licensing requirement drives the end-user pricing point of the CES2K higher
> than your competitors' equivalent products.
>
> Nick
>
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