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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Unfortunately that's not feasible. I'm approaching many hundreds of VPLS on many XMR boxes and moving all of the others to another named LSP just won't work.<br><br><br>Ideally Brocade need to ensure L2VPN also takes the metric into account, or be able to tag an LSP somehow so that it's only used if specifically configured to do so.<br><br><br><br>Thanks<br>Darren<br><a href="http://www.mellowd.co.uk/ccie" target="_blank">http://www.mellowd.co.uk/ccie</a><br><br><br><br><div>> From: timoid@timoid.org<br>> To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net<br>> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:13:52 +0000<br>> Subject: Re: [f-nsp] LSP Metrics<br>> <br>> > For a resilient solution recently I've had two firewalls in two DC's connected<br>> > to two separate VPLS instances. This is through an XMR core running 5.4E<br>> > <br>> > I've created a TE LSP that doesn't follow the shorted path unlike the primary<br>> > LSP. I've then set up the second VPLS to specifically use the second LSP.<br>> > <br>> > I only want to use this LSP for this VPLS. I don't want any other traffic using<br>> > this LSP.<br>> > <br>> > I've set the metric for the LSP to 50000, however other VPLS/VLL instances<br>> > are still using this path. From the config guide it seems that only BGP and<br>> > IGPs take note of the metric of the LSP. How is it possible to ensure that a<br>> > VPLS/VLL will only use this LSP if I specifically request it to do so?<br>> > <br>> > Thanks<br>> > Darren<br>> > http://www.mellowd.co.uk/ccie<br>> > <br>> <br>> You can specify an LSP by name in a VPLS by using:<br>> <br>> vpls-peer <ip> lsp <lsp><br>> from within your vpls configuration.<br>> <br>> VLLs on the other hand, you'll need a software upgrade (not sure it's available yet)?<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> foundry-nsp mailing list<br>> foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net<br>> http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp<br></div> </div></body>
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