[rc] Layer 2 MPLS - which routing protocol to use? WAS RE: anyone alive out there?

[Chris Morrow]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Joseph Jackson wrote:

> Well lets talk about routing then. :)  We are planning on moving away

okey-dokey!

> from some DS3's to a layer 2 MPLS setup.  We have a little debate going 
> on which routing protocol we should use to connect our sites.  Over the 
> DS3 we use OSPF but I've been pushing to run iBGP since the routers also 
> do eBGP.  Of course fast failure detection is a major goal so I'm just 
> wondering what others might think about that.
>

I've seen a bunch of private-ip/mpls provider's give their speeches to 
potential customers, in almost all they spout off about how they 
can/do/will support routing protocols like:

1) bgp
2) ospf
3) eigrp
4) rip

I almost never hear that things other than bgp work reliably... after much 
digging often the others are 'well we have plans in Q2...' or 'we have one 
customer doing this...'. Never really encouraging :) BGP and linking the 
neighbor-down to the route-withdrawl seem to do well enough. How fast do 
you need convergence to happen if the link drops? Have you tested to be 
sure that it won't drop fast enough?

-Chris

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Morrow [mailto:morrowc at ops-netman.net]
>> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 10:36 PM
>> To: Joseph Jackson
>> Cc: routing-chat at puck.nether.net
>> Subject: Re: [rc] anyone alive out there?
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>>
>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Joseph Jackson wrote:
>>
>>> Is this list active?
>>
>> it's there, not sure what the current chat is though :)
>