The MPLS-OPS Archive

Cell Relay Retreat>MPLS-OPS Archive>month:2002-Mar> msg00142



[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]  
  [Date Index][Thread Index][Author Index][Subject Index]

Need help for testing "OAM functions" on Cisco equipment

  • From: "Hallstein Lohne" <hallstein.lohne@siving.hia.no>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:45:29 +0100
  • Cc: "Johannes Vea" <johannes.vea@siving.hia.no>
  • Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:03:47 -0500
  • Thread-Index: AcHQzeZi6Dqc3MI1TqW/y8HTpJz1FQ==
  • Thread-Topic: Need help for testing "OAM functions" on Cisco equipment
  • To: <mpls-ops@mplsrc.com>

Title: Message

We are two students who have written about MPLS and its features in our graduate thesis. We have been actively monitoring this mailing list, hoping for information on operation, admninistration and management (OAM) on MPLS.

Cisco Systems Norway has been kind enough to let us stay at their test-lab for two days. They have mostly 36xx and 72/75xx routers.

We was first thinking of doing some kind of backward defect indicator (BDI) testing, where we had a HUB between various MPLS routers and we could attach a computer to this hub and sniff and try to detect a BDI packet when we detach one of the MPLS-routers.

We are planning for a scenario like this figure describes: http://www.hal.n3.net/mpls_test_scenario1.gif

Now it looks like Cisco do not support BDI (yet?), so we are now a bit confused about what to test.

We were also thinking about testing how re-routing of data is faster on MPLS than IP. But we're not sure how to set this up on Cisco equipment. What functions do we use for this?

We would like to ask you if you could help us thinking of a suitable test? We would like to utilize some kind of operation, admninistration and management (OAM) functions that Cisco equipment support. (Latest IOS documentation is found at http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122mindx/index.htm ). 

Any ideas about different tests would be greatly *greatly* appreciated.

Regards,

Hallstein Lohne
Johannes Vea
Student, ICT master programme, AUC, Norway