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Re: IP Routing problem after enabling MPLS?

  • From: Garry Glendown <garry@regio.net>
  • Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 20:22:15 +0200
  • CC: Pelle <ml@carlson.homeunix.net>
  • Resent-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:50:49 -0400
  • User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707

OK, I'm officially out of ideas ... I was at our customer all day today 
... setting up the MPLS VPN wasn't a problem, worked like a charm ... 
the problem is the Ethernet bridge our customer is operating on ...
While I was able to configure the switch involved to run with an MTU of 
1512, as well as our core routers which run on GigE ... but I have not 
been able to configure the FE's to run with anything larger than the 
1500 MTU, keep getting the "doesn't support user settable MTU" ...
Now, for the MPLS VPN we're implementing for our customers, this 
wouldn't be that much of a problem, as most of the communication will be 
to DSL dialups, which are running with way below the 1500 MTU ... but 
the MPLS network is also on the backbone (of course), and the ethernet 
bridge (50mbit limited 100MBit link) to the customer ... and that's 
where it is all messed up at ... while many web pages e.g. will continue 
to work, some (like e.g. heise.de or ebay.com/de) are hardly usable if 
at all ... I've tried messing around with the "ip mtu" which of course 
didn't work either ... also neither google nor cisco.com were much of 
help ...

Is it just the IOS versions I'm running? How do other people do their 
MPLS? I refuse to believe that everybody running MPLS does so only on 
either GigE, E3, POS or others, but not FE or Eth ... somewhere I read 
that Cisco FEs do not support larger MTUs, but "show cont" will display 
a max MTU of 1524 (while GigE has a Max MTU of 1536, but allows for 
higher sizes in "conf t" ...)

Help appreciated,

-gg


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