Thanks Nick/James for the replies Yes , I mean MPLS LDP router-id I understand the simplicity of inter-as VPN options and I wish it was the case They requested BGP in order for future VPLS connections as well We are using BGP at the moment as we are advertising the router-ids (public loopbacks) and am sure we can replace that via static
What is werid for me till now , why the session is passive Meanwhile , I have tested it on Cisco and worked like a charm BR, Mohammad > From: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:44:34 +0100 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] MPLS router-ID > > On 11 August 2015 at 14:39, Mohammad Khalil <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have one of my PEs already configured with a router-id (which is my > > private loopback interface) > > I assume you mean LDP router-id? > > > Am trying to establish xconnect with my uplink provider (which uses Juniper) > > The SP insisted to use public IP address for LDP neighborship , I cannot > > change my router-id as I will lose all of my active L2VPN sessions in my > > network (according to what I know , I cannot have expect for one ID for my > > router) > > I configured a public IP address and advertised it into BGP to my SP and > > the MPLS LDP session is up , but the targeted LDP session is passive ! > > What you say configured a public IP, do you mean on the interface > facing the provider and then used something like "discovery > transport-address interface" to use the interface IP as your LDP > router-id? > > Also why have you originated it into BGP? If you are using the public > on on the interface facing your provider they should know IP because > its directly connected. > > On paper this configuration works but I'm not 100% clear of your explentaion. > > As Nick has said, just having something like a tagged sub-interface > between you and your provider where the xconnect terminates would be a > better idea, the L3 VPNs can be in other sub-int's. > > Cheers, > James. > _______________________________________________ > 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/
