Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-09 Thread Stefan Englhardt
To be precise mpls needs routing working. You can do any routing protocol or even static routing. Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Mike Hammett af...@ics-il.net Datum: 09.08.2015 05:02 (GMT+01:00) An: af@afmug.com Betreff: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-09 Thread Paul Stewart
[mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2015 11:02 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist MPLS does require OSPF to function. However, to use VPLS tunnels from my tower to my edge, I still have three destinations for every tower

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-09 Thread Tushar Patel
to MPLS. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Englhardt Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2015 3:25 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist To be precise mpls needs routing working. You can do any routing protocol or even static routing

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-09 Thread Paul Stewart
: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist To be precise mpls needs routing working. You can do any routing protocol or even static routing. Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Mike Hammett af...@ics-il.net mailto:af...@ics-il.net Datum: 09.08.2015 05:02 (GMT+01:00) An: af@afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-09 Thread Paul Stewart
...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Tushar Patel Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2015 10:09 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist So what is the good place (book, website) to understand MPLS? Tushar On Aug 9, 2015, at 9:02 AM, Paul Stewart p...@paulstewart.org mailto:p

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-09 Thread Carl Peterson
Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com From: Shayne Lebrun sleb...@muskoka.com To: af@afmug.com Sent: Friday, August 7, 2015 3:24:07 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist I advocate keeping everything routed, and using MPLS/VPLS to move L2 where

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-08 Thread Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Shayne Lebrun sleb...@muskoka.com To: af@afmug.com Sent: Friday, August 7, 2015 3:24:07 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist I advocate keeping everything routed, and using MPLS/VPLS to move

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
That’s what I’m struggling with too. Multiple potential head ends that are geographically diverse on the network. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2015 6:11 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist Agreed

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-08 Thread Gino Villarini
Stay away from STP, go MpLS , MPLS-TP if possible On Thursday, August 6, 2015, Glen Waldrop gwl...@cngwireless.net wrote: I'm running Mikrotik, all routed, got a different subnet for each tower, got a different subnet between each tower, public IP's routed to the customers, all the fun

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-08 Thread Mike Hammett
://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Sterling Jacobson sterl...@avative.net To: af@afmug.com Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2015 10:44:06 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist That’s what I’m struggling with too. Multiple potential head ends

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-08 Thread Jason McKemie
javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sterl...@avative.net'); *To: *af@afmug.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','af@afmug.com'); *Sent: *Saturday, August 8, 2015 10:44:06 AM *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist That’s what I’m struggling with too. Multiple potential head ends

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-08 Thread Mike Hammett
://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Jason McKemie j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com To: af@afmug.com Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2015 9:57:47 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist I'm pretty ignorant on MPLS, but doesn't it work without OSPF? Or is a routing

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
, August 8, 2015 6:40 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist Head-ends and NOC all geographically diverse, so then each tower potentially has three public /30s instead of one for however many neighboring towers. Decisions... It should improve latency and possibly re

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-08 Thread Mike Hammett
...@avative.net To: af@afmug.com Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2015 10:22:24 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist I didn’t want to have customers switch public IP on fail. So that would require at least a /24 per site for BGP failover at the edge, if it has to BGP through

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-08 Thread Sterling Jacobson
Hammett Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2015 9:34 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist You lost me here... why the /24 per site? Just do whatever you were going to do anyway out of your /(whatever greater than 24). This wouldn't affect your EGP at all. Unless you're

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-07 Thread Glen Waldrop
Of George Skorup Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2015 8:52 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist If you already have a routed core network, especially if you have OSPF rings (like we do), I figure it'd make more sense to put MPLS on top. I haven't done it yet

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-07 Thread That One Guy /sarcasm
:* Thursday, August 6, 2015 8:52 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist If you already have a routed core network, especially if you have OSPF rings (like we do), I figure it'd make more sense to put MPLS on top. I haven't done it yet because we haven't

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-07 Thread Shayne Lebrun
Plus one for MPLS/VPLS. Gives you a lot more control over what goes where. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of George Skorup Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2015 8:52 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist If you already have a routed core network

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-07 Thread Joe Novak
/VPLS. Gives you a lot more control over what goes where. *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *George Skorup *Sent:* Thursday, August 6, 2015 8:52 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist If you already have a routed core network

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-07 Thread Glen Waldrop
: Friday, August 07, 2015 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist That’s the basics. On a Mikrotik: Create a bridge with no ports. Call it ‘Loopback’. Assign a /32 to it, and advertise via OSPF. Set your OSPF instance router ID to this IP. MPLS-MPLS, under LDP

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-07 Thread Paul Stewart
, 2015 9:04 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist I haven't grasped how this would work, but I haven't tried it in a lab yet either. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com _ From: Paul Stewart p...@paulstewart.org

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-07 Thread Sterling Jacobson
what we want. It will be interesting to see what of the methods/protocols you’ve listed we end up using and how we use it. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Paul Stewart Sent: Friday, August 7, 2015 12:40 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-07 Thread Shayne Lebrun
. Mikrotik’s wiki has some great write-ups on all this. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Paul Stewart Sent: Friday, August 7, 2015 2:40 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist If you have even a couple of routers (ideally with switches off of each

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-07 Thread Shayne Lebrun
I advocate keeping everything routed, and using MPLS/VPLS to move L2 where they need to go, when required. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Glen Waldrop Sent: Friday, August 7, 2015 3:09 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist You guys

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-07 Thread Paul Stewart
@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist If you have even a couple of routers (ideally with switches off of each), you can simulate some pretty cool stuff… then add a third router into the mix and it’s even more fun. MPLS isn’t something you just learn right away

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-07 Thread Mike Hammett
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist I’d suggest BGP at all locations when building an MPLS network – MPBGP to be specific…. Sometimes folks who are just starting into MPLS presume that by having a full BGP mesh everywhere means that you need to carry the full Internet routing

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-07 Thread Paul Stewart
...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2015 11:13 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist MPLS is where we are heading. In the planning phases right now for MPLS ring network. Seems like it works well if the network has multiple paths

[AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-06 Thread Glen Waldrop
I'm running Mikrotik, all routed, got a different subnet for each tower, got a different subnet between each tower, public IP's routed to the customers, all the fun stuff. I'm thinking of restructuring my network so the entire backbone is one big L2 network. If I plug into the switch at the

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-06 Thread That One Guy /sarcasm
Im probably mucking our whole network up, but we are putting a mikrotik rb1200ahx2 at each site, each backhaul goes into its own port for routing and running OSPF, there is a /30 between each site for router to router and the ospf traffic, a /30 secondary on each interface for the local backhaul

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-06 Thread Ty Featherling
This is basically what I have right now. I will describe it in more detail when I'm not mobile. -Ty On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Glen Waldrop gwl...@cngwireless.net wrote: I'm running Mikrotik, all routed, got a different subnet for each tower, got a different subnet between each tower,

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-06 Thread Sterling Jacobson
debating right now. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2015 7:43 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist MPLS-enabling a network also reduces your latency on Mikrotik. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-06 Thread George Skorup
If you already have a routed core network, especially if you have OSPF rings (like we do), I figure it'd make more sense to put MPLS on top. I haven't done it yet because we haven't needed to do anything like customer tunnels for multi-site interconnects, but we're getting there. On 8/6/2015

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-06 Thread Glen Waldrop
To: af@afmug.com Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist Im probably mucking our whole network up, but we are putting a mikrotik rb1200ahx2 at each site, each backhaul goes into its own port for routing and running OSPF

Re: [AFMUG] Routed vs bridge with a twist

2015-08-06 Thread Mike Hammett
] Routed vs bridge with a twist If you already have a routed core network, especially if you have OSPF rings (like we do), I figure it'd make more sense to put MPLS on top. I haven't done it yet because we haven't needed to do anything like customer tunnels for multi-site interconnects, but we're