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["Vijay TR" <vijay_tr@rediffmail.com>]

Hi

I feel if you want the end to end customer connectivity via a switch you can go ahead with it. Only problem is you have to extend LAN cable from your PE router to the Customer L2 switch. You can run Layer 3 MPLS VPN or Layer 2 MPLS VPN between PE router fastethernet port to the other end PE router fastethernet port as per your desire. I have tested the same.

Bye
Vijay


On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 Aditya kaul wrote :
>
>     Why dont u go for VPLS or VLL in this case ?
>Rgds
>Aditya
>
>
>6. How PEs Learn Routes from CEs
>
>    The PE routers which attach to a particular VPN need to know, for
>    each of that VPN's sites, which addresses in that VPN are at each
>    site.
>  In the case where the CE device is a host or a switch, this set of
>    addresses will generally be configured into the PE router attaching
>    to that device.
>
>Devendra.Vyas@relianceinfo.com wrote:
>Hi,
>
>2547bis says
>
>"A customer edge (CE) device provides customer access to the service
>provider network over a
>data link to one or more provider edge (PE) routers. While the CE device
>can be a host or a
>Layer 2 switch, typically the CE device is an IP router that establishes an
>adjacency with its
>directly connected PE routers."
>
>Suppose a customer has a L2 CE device (switch) & his requirement is that
>he has to be accomodated on to the Providers existing BGP/MPLS L3 VPN based
>setup with his CE device.
>
>
>i have heard there is a workaround for such scenarios wherein...a sort of
>virtual router that mimics a L3 CE device is created on the PE of the
>provider which connects to L2 CE..and the VPN in turn starts from the PE
>connecting to this PE.
>my question??
>need clarity -whether this works and how exactly this will work if it will.
>
>will be thankful to be referred to links that explore such a scenario
>
>Regards,
>
>Devendra Vyas
>
>
>
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