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Re: Need help for testing "OAM functions" on Cisco equipment

  • From: "Thomas D. Nadeau" <tnadeau@cisco.com>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:01:20 -0500
  • Cc: <mpls-ops@mplsrc.com>, "Johannes Vea" <johannes.vea@siving.hia.no>
  • Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:45:15 -0500
  • To: "Hallstein Lohne" <hallstein.lohne@siving.hia.no>
  • X-Sender: tnadeau@bucket

At 12:45 PM 3/21/2002 +0100, Hallstein Lohne wrote:

>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.

         Please contact me privately and I will see how we might be able to 
help you.

         --Tom


>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>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>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



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