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RE: Why should the PE-CE IP address be unique ?

  • From: "Harpreet Singh" <harpreet.singh@vsnl.co.in>
  • Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:02:47 +0530
  • Organization: VSNL
  • Resent-Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 01:02:57 -0400
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The PE-CE link addresses can come out of anywhere and are limited to the VRF
only. However, it is a common practice in SPs to provide addresses from
their pool (private or public) and pull them into the management VRF where
all the NMS systems reside. This is to be able to generate the SLA reports
for the customers from CPE to CPE. For managed customers, there is
additional config required in backend systems. 

The same reason applies to not having unnumbered addressees.  


Regards
Harpreet Singh

-----Original Message-----
From: Bala S. Venkata [mailto:balavenkata@netscape.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:52 AM
To: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
Subject: [MPLS-OPS]: Why should the PE-CE IP address be unique ?

I was going thru one of the Networkers 2005 presentation titled "RST-3109
Deploying MPLS VPN"
In it was listed as one of the "best practices" that

"5. PE-CE IP address should come out of SP's public address space to avoid
overlapping Use /31 subnetting on PE-CE interfaces"

My question is why is this necessary ? What happens if the PE interface ip
address is the same for two sites ? Are PE intf IPs exchanged between the
PEs ? Finally, what about unnumbered interfaces ?


Thanks & best regards,

/bala


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