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Re: VRF design/monitoring questions

  • From: Per Carlson <ml@carlson.homeunix.net>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:11:21 +0200
  • CC: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
  • Resent-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 03:44:21 -0400
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On 2004-09-21 20:30, Tracy Smith wrote:
> Hi.  For those of you who utilize L3 vpn's, I have a few questions:
> Do you exclusively use vrf's?  (are all of your routes vpn'd)

For customer traffic, yes. There is also a small global address space 
connecting the P/PE-network together. It consists only of all P-PE links 
and loopbacks of the P/PE's. LDP needs global adresses to be able to set 
up LSR's.

> If all routes are vpn'd, do you run BGP in your core?

MP-iBGP yes.

> What do you use to monitor vrf's?  

We are using a separate hub-and-spoke mgmt-vrf. The mgmt-network is 
injected into the vrf in the hub-end. All CE-routers has got one 
Loopback address that's beeing leaked from the customer-vrf to the 
mgmt-vrf on the connecting PE. All customer-vrf's do also import the 
mgmt-vpn hub RT.

> Anyone using the mpls plug-in for HP OpenView?

Not us.

Per

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