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For questions about Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), the layer 2.5 protocol used as a transport layer for Traffic Engineering, some Layer 2 & 3 VPN's, and VPLS.
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Why we need traffic be evenly distributed to LSPs in MPLS-TE?
Without anything like MPLS-TE and PCEP etc, just having ECMP between to P/PEs is a very optimal design to ensure as network flows come and go there is a good chance there is enough free bandwidth on any …
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EoMPLS, MSTP, and RPVST
The ME3600s don't support the forwarding of STP or MST frames through EVC. Port based PWE3s will transport STP frames but you will have to chew up a lot of ports. Really you should be engaging your ve …
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MPLS lable generation - PE-P-PE routing
but what I don't see are labels for the 192.168.100.1 that is going to go over the P routers. the BGP points to 8.1.1.1 and that has a label - If you have configured PE1 as 8.1.1.1 with next-hop-self …
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How are the LERs determined in an MPLS LSP using LDP
Here is the MPLS forwarding table on R1;
R1#show mpls forwarding-table
Local Outgoing Prefix Bytes tag Outgoing Next Hop
tag tag or VC or Tunnel Id switched interface … label) for every MPLS FEC they have. …
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In MPLS VPN, Which one become first? MPLS Label tag or VPN encapsulation?
In an MPLS VPN the layer 2 or layer 3 traffic being carried over an Label Switched Path is not encapsulated - MPLS does not provide an encapsulation method - it is a transport method. … MPLS labels are inserted (usually) above say an the Ethernet header and below the IP header, and it provides a transport mechanism across a packet switch network. …
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Are there any reasons to not use BFD?
I am only directly aware of one issue with BFD, which is CPU demand. I am currently investigating an issues with a Cisco 7301 which when pushing more traffic during our peak hours, compared to the res …
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Cisco 7600 MUX-UNI on SRE IOS?
interface GigabitEthernet8/3.456
description PWE3 to a box
encapsulation dot1Q 920
xconnect 172.16.25.25 1026 encapsulation mpls
mtu 1500
When I try to reconfigure this as a MUX-UNI interface the …