2012/1/26 Mark Tinka <[email protected]>: > On Friday, January 27, 2012 12:36:50 AM Keegan Holley wrote: > >> What do you use for signaling? It seems like overkill to >> keep one kind of traffic from using the MPLS operations >> if there are already LSP's between the source and the >> destination and L3/L2vpn traffic flowing between them. >> You also give up some of the MPLS knobs such as FRR and >> link/node protection. What do you gain by doing this? > > We signal mostly by LDP, and scarcely by RSVP. > > One of the main reasons we allow Internet traffic to be > forwarded by MPLS through the network is to enjoy a BGP-free > core for IPv4. That's the only relation the global table has > with MPLS. Otherwise, MPLS is used strictly for MPLS-based > applications.
I agree... I think. MPLS has a better forwarding paradigm and the IGP only core of P routers is a plus. > > We only use RSVP for p2mp LSP's for our BGP-MVPN Multicast > (IPTv) services, and also for focused TE requirements, e.g., > unequal cost paths within the core. > > As the TE is mostly for Internet traffic, we don't turn on > FRR for that. We only enable FRR for the p2mp RSVP-based > LSP's, and those are dedicated to IPTv. Why not FRR everything? The control plane hit is negligable even if your internet users wouldn't notice, care about, or even understand the improvements. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
