[j-nsp] Very basic question about MPLS and RSVP's place in the design

[Scott Granados]

This sounds like a great place to start.  I assume the Cisco books aren’t overly Cisco specific as I’m trying to get my head around the basics with out depending on a single vendor.  It seems for example that cisco employs some shortcuts that I shouldn’t use at my starting point to learn the fundamentals.  I’ll give these a shot and appreciate your suggestion.


On Oct 26, 2016, at 2:41 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu<mailto:mark.tinka at seacom.mu>> wrote:



On 26/Oct/16 02:34, Scott Granados wrote:


Hi, this is a very basic question at least I think it is, apologies for being so green in advance.

If you are going to operate an MPLS network, it is very important that you nail the basics down.

You can learn a lot from this list, but I'd emphasize that doing some studying on your own will be even more helpful. I'd recommend the below:

    http://www.ciscopress.com/store/mpls-and-vpn-architectures-9781587050022

The book is old, but it covers the fundamentals pretty well.

If you're done with that and want to take things deeper, I'd recommend Volume II of the same:

    http://www.ciscopress.com/store/mpls-and-vpn-architectures-volume-ii-9781587051128

Anything beyond that will be gravy.

Mark.