Skeeve, I am not sure I fully understand your application, but a few things come to mind:
1. You can buy a VPLS service from your SP (the one that has an MPLS cloud) and ask them to provision a L2 cloud between your sites. 2. You could try using some tunnels (most solutions would be L3 based except EoMPLS), but platform/software support for this is limited 3. Run L3 VPN between your sites using the SP's service. This would not allow for L2 interconnection, but would allow IP communication. If you give a better view of what you want actually to achieve maybe we can come up with something more specific. Arie -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Skeeve Stevens Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 15:44 To: [email protected] Subject: [c-nsp] Connecting a VRF between routers Firstly, YES, I've kind of asked this before, but with the different ways people do and understand things all over the world, I've not had a response that actually works. So.. Simply. I have, lets just say 2 (two) routers and or switches (3560, etc with VRF support). I want to, at a layer 2 level, link a vrf on one router/switch to another. What I am meaning here is. If I type 'show ip arp vrf BLAH' on one device, I want to see the ARP for devices connected into the VRF on the other router. I don't particularly want to use tunnels due to MTU issues. A VLAN with an SVI on a switch and a sub-e on a router work fine, but only if I have a full layer2 switched path all the way. In some cases I do not. An example would be when we use another carrier to link two cities and they have an MPLS cloud in the middle. I want to link a VRF to another VRF on each side of the cloud. I am not sure if what I want to do makes sense.. Some people just suggest MPLS, but it seems like an over complex solution if we're talking about 2-3 routers/switches. If I am not being clear about something, please feel free to ask me for more info. -- Skeeve Stevens, RHCE [email protected] / www.skeeve.org Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 / skype://skeeve eintellego - [email protected] - www.eintellego.net -- I'm a groove licked love child king of the verse Si vis pacem, para bellum _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
