can somebody lay down the dummy version of MPLS implementation On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Shayne Lebrun <[email protected]> wrote:
> Plus one for MPLS/VPLS. Gives you a lot more control over what goes where. > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *George Skorup > *Sent:* Thursday, August 6, 2015 8:52 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist > > > > If you already have a routed core network, especially if you have OSPF > rings (like we do), I figure it'd make more sense to put MPLS on top. I > haven't done it yet because we haven't needed to do anything like customer > tunnels for multi-site interconnects, but we're getting there. > > On 8/6/2015 4:32 PM, Glen Waldrop wrote: > > I'm running Mikrotik, all routed, got a different subnet for each tower, > got a different subnet between each tower, public IP's routed to the > customers, all the fun stuff. > > I'm thinking of restructuring my network so the entire backbone is one big > L2 network. If I plug into the switch at the tower at tower 5 it will be no > different than tower 1 or 7. Each AP would still have it's own subnet, but > the backside of each AP would be on the same L2 as the rest. > > I'm planning on looping it all the way around and building redundancy into > the network, haven't quite decided how I'm going to do that yet, might use > STP, that is a little ways down the road. I'll have another fiber feed in > case the main goes down and I'd like to have a level of redundancy should a > tower go out, I'll only lose the one rather than the ones behind it as well. > > I've fried my brain today, so if I'm sounding half crazy, just tell me to > take the rest of the day off... > > I'm thinking it might be best to have a few large L2 segments to the > backbone, maybe three or four, rather than one big L2 and much simpler than > 12+ subnets from tower to tower. > > Input is appreciated. > > > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
