The main benefit of having a different RD per VRF per PE is for IBGP multipath in the core. If you don't need or ever foresee using/benefiting from multipath, then you can use the same RD for a given VRF on all PE's.
Thanks, Solutions Architect SP Mobility Advanced Services CCIE R&S Cisco Systems, Inc. Office: 919-392-1574 Mobile: 919-323-9972 Pager: 800-365-4578 Fax: 919-287-2664 Email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Sent: September 08, 2009 7:06 PM To: [email protected]; Phil Mayers Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Change VRF RD Hi, --- On Tue, 8/9/09, Phil Mayers <[email protected]> wrote: > When we deployed our MPLS core, we made the minor mistake of setting > the RD the same on every router. > I'm curious, I thought setting the RD the same on each PE router (obviously per VPN) was the way to do things ? Most of the stuff I've seen shows it done this way, eg. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk436/tk428/technologies_configuration_example09186a00800a6c11.shtml http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk436/tk428/technologies_configuration_example09186a008009445c.shtml http://wiki.nil.com/wk/images/b/b1/MPLS_VPN_cheatsheet.pdf When do/should you set the RD to be different ? I'm guessing it's going to be for larger installations and to allow more customisation or something ? Happy to do some reading and educate myself if people can point me towards the correct material. Thanks very much, Tony. (apologies for hijacking the thread) __________________________________________________________________________________ Get more done like never before with Yahoo!7 Mail. Learn more: http://au.overview.mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ 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/
