I believe it is something about processing packets for fastpath on the VPLS end 
tunnel that hasn’t been added yet in Mikrotik.

So I keep waiting for it to show up, but haven’t seen it yet.

Could also be something else about implementing MPLS across that path, but 
that’s when everything ‘slowed down’ for me.

Won’t know for sure until I revert some of it and test.

Or they say something else about it in the release notes or newer versions.



From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cassidy B. Larson
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 4:02 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] MPLS

MPLS is supposed to be “faster” than pure IP routing.  It wont have to lookup 
the full route in the route table.. just match the appropriate label to the 
label table.
If that is true on Mikrotik, I couldn’t tell you.


On Feb 17, 2017, at 3:59 PM, Sterling Jacobson 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

We use it for both and then a few more tags for business clients with multiple 
POPs hanging off our network.

Works great.

Just want to push the envelope more with my capacity.


From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason McKemie
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 3:36 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] MPLS

I was debating on whether to just use VPLS for my management traffic and then 
routing customer traffic as normal, or put both in separate VPLS instances.

On Friday, February 17, 2017, Sterling Jacobson 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I’m using it on 6.38 and so far so good.

I use it all over and at the core.

But I’m still experiencing ‘slow downs’ at the VPLS port where I don’t get 
9Gbps anymore, and it appears to be reduced to 5Gbps and 2Gbps for up/down.

So I’m thinking of reverting back to straight OSPF and VRRP for my main 
customer end routing.

From: Af 
[mailto:<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
 On Behalf Of Jason McKemie
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 1:27 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [AFMUG] MPLS

I'm starting to utilize MPLS/VPLS at the edge of my network for a specific 
location, but am wondering if there is any reason to not just use it all the 
way back to the core.  What are the pros/cons of using MPLS?  I would think 
that you could save some public IPs if nothing else.

Also, has anyone had any issues with MPLS/VPLS on the latest stable RouterOS 
version (6.38.1)?

-Jason

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