[c-nsp] MPLS VPN over mGRE - PMTUD?

2010-09-29 Thread Alasdair McWilliam
Hi List, Apologies if this is hidden in the list somewhere, but I've done a bit of Googling and can't find too much.. so here goes! I'm looking at implementing an MPLS VPN over mGRE solution to facilitate routing instance segregation across multiple, geographically separate sites, across a

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS VPN over mGRE - PMTUD?

2010-09-29 Thread Benjamin Lovell
If you are looking to do this for setting the MPLS MTU dynamically then I don't think this will help as starting with our forwarding infrastructure rewrite in 12.4(20)T (I would need to check to be sure when/if in other code trains) we lost the ability to set the MPLS MTU on tunnel interfaces.

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS VPN over mGRE - PMTUD?

2010-09-29 Thread Alasdair McWilliam
Thanks for the heads up on that. My 'PE' routers will be 7200-NPE400 FE in/out or ASR1k GbE in/out (and possibly ISR 3945s if/when the feature is available..) all with standard 1500MTU. Inside LAN interfaces will be subinterfaces (one per VRF) and outside WAN interfaces will be access ports

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS VPN over mGRE - PMTUD?

2010-09-29 Thread Benjamin Lovell
The problem with ICMP frag needed is some apps(read Microsoft) just flat out fail when frag happens and set the DF bit to be sure it does not. ICMP frag needed or not they will just fail over and over. They may have gotten better with this since the last time I cared(somewhere in between