Jared,
Thank you for your reply. The one issue I have is how can I label traffic
to match a given table (i.e. ping VRF or snmp VRF). I don't see any way this
can be done with normal BSD sockets, finding a way to get my application to
'color' the traffic has been a little evasive. The developers I am working
with are using Mule for their data collection. I would really prefer to add an
MPLS tag to mark the traffic, but I will investigate what I can do using the
Linux routing features and 802.1q tags.
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Brian Raaen
Network Architect
[email protected]
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 09:50:30AM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
>
> On Aug 23, 2011, at 9:45 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > While I have found some information on a project called linux-mpls I am
> > having a hard time finding any solid VRF framework for Linux. I have a
> > monitoring system that needs check devices that sit in overlapping private
> > ip space, and I was wondering if there is anyway I could use some kind or
> > VRF type solution that would allow me to label the "site" the traffic is
> > intended for. The upstream router supports VRF/MPLS, but I need to know
> > how I can get the server to label the traffic. I would appreciate any
> > input.
>
> In linux, you can manage the different routing tables.
>
> You can do this with the iptables + iproute2 series of commands. The tables
> 254/255 are the main and local tables.
>
> You shouldn't have too much trouble finding information via google on how to
> manage your needs.
>
> - Jared
