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Re: PE directly connected to PE/P

  • From: Aamer Akhter <aakhter@cisco.com>
  • Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 19:25:40 -0400
  • Resent-Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 20:03:20 -0400
  • To: "Rudisill, Amelia" <rudisila@ncr.disa.mil>, <mpls-ops@mplsrc.com>
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On 5/29/03 1:17 PM, "Rudisill, Amelia" <rudisila@ncr.disa.mil> wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> Can anyone provide information on the ramifications of physically connecting
> PEs to 
> PEs in which the network architecture is hierarchical. (i.e. core,
> distribution and access layer).

Not really a mpls problem, but by cutting out the hierarchy you will be
creating more IGP adjacency state etc. It really depends on what scale you
do this at. If you're going to create a full-mesh of PE-PE's and you've got
50 PE's, that's going to be a problem in various fronts-- again not really a
MPLS issue. If you care about multicast replication efficiency, this is not
the path to take ;-)

Depending on how you cost your links the PE-PE link may become a transit
interface for traffic that has nothing to do with both PE's.


> 
> Thanks for any information,
> 
> Amelia
> 
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Aamer Akhter / aa@cisco.com
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