[j-nsp] Load balacing issue - M7i

sthaug at nethelp.no sthaug at nethelp.no
Thu Sep 17 05:06:28 EDT 2009


> Thanks for that info Benny. In a leyr 3 environmet, Label 1 should be VPN
> label, and label 2 should be MPLS label....

I believe you have this backwards. In a MPLS VPN environment, label 1
is the topmost label, and is used to reach the egress PE router. Label
2 is the VPN label.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no

> Cheer
> 
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Benny Sumitro <benny.sumitro at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > AFAIK, payload ip will only makes the router to use 5 least significant
> > bits of DA in the hashing algorithm.
> >
> > For the label 1, i still confuse if the router uses top label which is
> > transport mpls label or bottom label which is vpn label. Maybe the experts
> > here can shed a light on this :)
> >
> > BR,
> > Benny
> >
> >   On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Shiva Shankar <shankarks at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >>  Hi Gebts Ladies.....A quick question on load balancing on juniper M7i
> >> running Junos 8.4R2..The config I have on the router is:
> >>
> >> family mpls { label-1;  payload { ip; } }
> >>
> >> The documentation says, for load-balacing (or load sharing per flow), the
> >> above uses label-1 (which is VPN label) and bits of IPv4 addess..My
> >> question
> >> is,  (i) does it includes all the bits in an IPv4 address or just few bits
> >> of IPv4 address?     cheers
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