Re: [c-nsp] MPLS TE Load Balancing

2012-03-30 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi Omar, Wouldn't all the packets be considered part of the same flow by any chance? adam -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of omar parihuana Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 2:28 AM To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net

Re: [c-nsp] Internet inside a VRF?

2012-03-15 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Right, finding a good business case is the catch But what's great on mpls is that you'll never hit the ceiling on number of routes carried in control plane or number of nodes in the network other than the budged, because no single node has to have a full routing awareness of the whole network

Re: [c-nsp] Internet inside a VRF?

2012-03-14 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
I guess you can ask: Why do we run mpls anyway or even plan on expanding it all the way to the access layer right? I thought the answer is obvious, TE capabilities, fast failover or common carrier infrastructure that scales well And by common I mean infrastructure that supports all the

Re: [c-nsp] RP Migration option

2012-02-27 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Groups or configuring end nodes to prefer dynamic RPs or combination of both adam From: Андрей Андреев [mailto:a.andr...@teztour.com] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 10:44 AM To: Vitkovsky, Adam Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] RP Migration option

Re: [c-nsp] RP Migration option

2012-02-24 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi, You mentioned you have a big m-cast network that's why I would recommend using several anycast RPs on routers with close proximity to receivers -this way each RP would serve only a subset of receivers (or two RPs in one locality can split the groups they serve) In order to achieve this

Re: [c-nsp] Dial-Backup / OSPF

2012-02-23 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Just enable the ip ospf demand-circuit cmd under the dial backup interfaces The LSAs are than exchanged only once with DNA bit set, periodic refresh (30 min by default) is suppressed and LSAs are sent only when there's topology change -therefore the remote site should be conf at least as stub

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS TE conver from IOS to IOS-XR

2012-02-23 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
I guess that would go under the tunnel template used for auto-tunnels adam -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of ?? Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:48 AM To: Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) Cc:

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS TE conver from IOS to IOS-XR

2012-02-23 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
I'm sorry the auto template is only used in ios In XR you can specify the autoroute announce under attribute set And than use that with the group adam -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of ?? Sent:

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS TE conver from IOS to IOS-XR

2012-02-23 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
In XR you’ll configure it the same - “path-option 1 dynamic” or “path-option 1 explicit name” under the tunnel-te interface adam From: 许虎 [mailto:jstuxuhu0...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:58 AM To: Vitkovsky, Adam Cc: Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS TE conver from IOS to IOS-XR

2012-02-23 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
[mailto:jstuxuhu0...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:00 PM To: Vitkovsky, Adam Cc: Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer); cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] MPLS TE conver from IOS to IOS-XR I know, but my situation is auto-tunnel mesh. Thanks and regards, Xu Hu On 23 Feb, 2012

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS TE conver from IOS to IOS-XR

2012-02-23 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Yes, now that I think about it, it might be helpful to have a knob to instruct a group of tunnels to use or exclude a particular hop adam -Original Message- From: Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) [mailto:oboeh...@cisco.com] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:00 PM To: Vitkovsky, Adam

Re: [c-nsp] automatic bgp route refresh

2012-02-22 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Reminds me on old days when acls didn't have numbered lines During the migrations we had to maintain production and temp acl and change the distribute statements to use temp acl before deleting the production acl and pasting an updated version of it than put the production one back in and

Re: [c-nsp] inter-VRF routing

2012-02-03 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
You can use static routes for static inter-vrf routing For dynamic inter-vrf redistribution of prefixes you need MP-BGP adam -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Covalciuc Piotr Sent: Friday, February 03,

Re: [c-nsp] forced path MPLS tunnel question

2012-01-17 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi Question #1: Yes you can use verbatim keyword in the path option -router will attempt to build the tunnel without checking the te-lsdb Question #2 -before the tunnel is build, router will check the te-lsdb to see whether the path specified (explicit or dynamic) has sufficient parameters for

Re: [c-nsp] inter-as mp-bgp with ttl-security issue

2012-01-04 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
session (so that I have p-core igp clear of other AS loopbacks) adam -Original Message- From: Gert Doering [mailto:g...@greenie.muc.de] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 8:37 PM To: Vitkovsky, Adam Cc: 'cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net' Subject: Re: [c-nsp] inter-as mp-bgp with ttl-security issue

[c-nsp] inter-as mp-bgp with ttl-security issue

2012-01-03 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
I just ran across this issue again so I decided to find some reasonable explanation if there's one I've just set up a vpnv4 session between two inter-as route-reflectors (7200s runing 12.2(33)SRE4) Since it's MP-eBGP session I either can use ebgp-multihop or ttl-security to manipulate the ttl

Re: [c-nsp] How to see interface configuration after card failure on ASR9K

2011-12-28 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Show run should display the configuration for the card that was removed and all it's references in the config It will jut list the interfaces as interface preconfigure gig0/2/3/4 -same as when you pre-configure interfaces for a line-card that is not yet inserted into the box or you'd like to

Re: [c-nsp] How to see interface configuration after card failure on ASR9K

2011-12-28 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Pre-configuration is possible with XR as well adam -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Roesen Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 1:15 PM To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] How to see

Re: [c-nsp] How to see interface configuration after card failure on ASR9K

2011-12-28 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
, December 28, 2011 1:49 PM To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] How to see interface configuration after card failure on ASR9K On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 01:37:34PM +0100, Vitkovsky, Adam wrote: Pre-configuration is possible with XR as well So you can preconfigure interfaces

Re: [c-nsp] Sporadic loss of LDP neighbor ...

2011-12-13 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi In this case I'd be careful with these features Even though the advantage is that you won't loose the label mappings from the particular neighbor in case the direct link fails as the ldp hellos would be exchanged between the loopbacks and can be routed around the failed link same as the tcp

Re: [c-nsp] Sporadic loss of LDP neighbor ...

2011-12-12 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi, So the section of the core you have issues with is like a triangle between the 3 7200s right? -now are the 7200's connected with GigE back-to-back or via switch ? -and how is the AS1002F connected to this setup please? -is it connected to BB1 and BB2 to replace BB3? You said you ran a

Re: [c-nsp] VLAN retag on Cisco 7600 + ES

2011-11-25 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi, Now I'm not sure whether you should push 2 or just 1 -or you can use the last one interface Gi1/0/0 description TO-3750G service instance 123 ethernet description Customer VLAN 123 encapsulation dot1q 123 rewrite ingress tag push dot1q 1248 symmetric or rewrite ingress tag push

Re: [c-nsp] VLAN retag on Cisco 7600 + ES

2011-11-25 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
adam -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Vitkovsky, Adam Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 1:35 PM To: Tord Førland; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] VLAN retag on Cisco 7600 + ES Hi, Now I'm

Re: [c-nsp] IOS XR BGP

2011-11-24 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Same as in Jonos use the aggregate cmd: 2.router bgp as-number 3.address-family { ipv4 | ipv6 } unicast 4.aggregate-address address/mask-length [ as-set ] [ as-confed-set ] [ summary-only ] [ route-policy route-policy-name ] The as-set keyword generates autonomous system set

Re: [c-nsp] IOS XR BGP

2011-11-24 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
statement with as-set appended. Any other thoughts? Nick -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Nick Ryce Sent: 24 November 2011 12:54 To: Vitkovsky, Adam; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] IOS XR BGP

[c-nsp] IOS XR Path Computation Element

2011-11-15 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi there, I'd like to ask how to configure the inter-as-te on XR I've found that XR uses Path Computation Element rather than passive interface flooding that is used in IOS ASBR-1: configure mpls traffic-eng interface pos 0/6/0/0 pce address ipv4 192.168.25.66 is this

Re: [c-nsp] Down-bit or external route tag cleared by capability vrf-lite ?

2011-11-14 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Interesting question If CE1 advertises a prefix to mpls via PE1 Than on PE2 during redistribution of mp-bgp to ospf in vrf context the down bit is set in the header of LSA3 and external route tag on LSA5 encoded as the mp-bgp as# by default or according to the cmd: domain-tag tag Now ospf

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS - MP-BPG with multiple OSPF areas

2011-10-19 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi The suppression won't fix this behavior but will reduce the number of prefixes ospf needs to carry to roughly 200 -thus enabling you to use a single area 0 I'd recommend not to use multiple areas within the same AS (or confed member-as) as there are mpls features which needs some tweaking

[c-nsp] 802.1ah documentation

2011-10-17 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi, I somehow failed to find some decent documentation on how does the Provider Backbone bridges work Can you please point me to some documentation or books please? I'm mostly interested in how is the mac routing accomplished Also I'd be interested to see how may of you are actually using it in

Re: [c-nsp] 7600 Route Reflector Issue

2011-10-15 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi Could the other 7600 possibly have the same cluster id as the one that you are looking at? -just a thought adam -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of ar Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 9:32 AM To:

Re: [c-nsp] bgp bestpath w/o bgp always-compare-med

2011-10-12 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi, By default the MED comparison only occurs in the first (the neighboring) AS is the same in the two paths -which is not your case Since these are eBGP routes the next tie breaker is: Prefer the path that was received first (the oldest one) IOS always displays the routes the way that the

Re: [c-nsp] mpls traffic-eng tunnel preemption

2011-10-06 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Try to replace the protect 1 with 2 and use the priorities you've outlined Though be aware that the failover will be slower as the second path is not pre-established and would only be used after the first path fails and attempt to re-establish the first path will fail interface Tunnel12

Re: [c-nsp] Certificate Update and Resource of CCIE

2011-10-04 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Suggested Cisco Press titles for written and lab exams v3.0 MPLS Fundamentals (Luc De Ghein, ISBN-10: 1-58705-197-4 ,ISBN-13: 978-1-58705-197-5) MPLS and Next-Generation Networks: Foundations for NGN and Enterprise Virtualization (Azhar Sayeed, Monique J. Morrow, ISBN-10: 1-58720-120-8,

Re: [c-nsp] Certificate Update and Resource of CCIE

2011-10-04 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Speaking of CRSes :) have anyone seen the XR compiled for AIX somewhere on the net? adam -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Tim Franklin Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 11:01 AM To:

Re: [c-nsp] general question on VRFs and FIBs...

2011-09-27 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi, So is junos and ios really coded to carve up a separate FIB tables each with it's own table preamble and stuff + adjacency table for each vrf? As I believe it's possible to have a common FIB with some sort of a marker asociated with each table entry -describing the vrf participation Than

Re: [c-nsp] 7200 DSCP-to-EXP Mapping

2011-09-19 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
What I'm not sure though it whether it reflects the TOS into top-most label or all the labels in the stack by default -equivalence of the set mpls imposition cmd If it does the top-most only by default -than you'd need to carry the top-most label markings form inbound do outbound interface on

[c-nsp] P2MP MPLS TE

2011-09-19 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi there, I'm a bit confused with this one Is anyone using this in the production network please? I'd like to understand in which scenarios these p2mp te-tunnels are being used Was this only meant for m-cast carried in the Global table? I see how mldp can supersede the GRE as well as the default

Re: [c-nsp] 7200 DSCP-to-EXP Mapping

2011-09-19 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Speaking of pipe modes :) I also failed to use the pipe mode with 12.2.33 SR codes As I was not able to use the qos-groups to keep track of the EXP value on the egress PE So on 7200s I pretty much got stuck with a short pipe mode and set mpls-exp imposition at the ingress PE adam

Re: [c-nsp] 7200 DSCP-to-EXP Mapping

2011-09-19 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
From: ar [mailto:ar_...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 2:40 PM To: Vitkovsky, Adam Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] 7200 DSCP-to-EXP Mapping I believe as the packet travels the MPLS domain, same EXP bits are applied as they swap top labels..this means I

Re: [c-nsp] 7200 DSCP-to-EXP Mapping

2011-09-19 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Yes please I was able to use the qos-groups with the 15. code adam -Original Message- From: Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) [mailto:oboeh...@cisco.com] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 2:34 PM To: Vitkovsky, Adam; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: RE: [c-nsp] 7200 DSCP-to-EXP Mapping Adam

Re: [c-nsp] IOS XR

2011-09-12 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Well you can always pay some extra $$$ for the 1+1 APS to improve the convergence times on the long-haul systems But still if the first aplifier on the TX path fails you'd still have to wait some time till the blackout reaches the RX site at the oter end of Pacific Than you'd just need to relay

Re: [c-nsp] ASR opinions..

2011-08-31 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Right the default route would work nicely with bgp free core and no IGP on the Intra-AS-RRs But it won't work for Inter-AS-RRs Because you don't wan the local AS IGP to be polluted with the remote ASNs PEs and Inter-AS-RRs loopbacks so you rather want to carry those in bgp-afi-ipv4 + labels In

Re: [c-nsp] ASR opinions..

2011-08-31 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 2:15 PM To: Vitkovsky, Adam Cc: mti...@globaltransit.net; Mack McBride; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ASR opinions.. Hi Adam, The discussion is about control plane RRs. Therefor in control plane RRs you do not need to have any LSP on those nor populate

Re: [c-nsp] ASR opinions..

2011-08-31 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
To: Vitkovsky, Adam Cc: mti...@globaltransit.net; Mack McBride; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ASR opinions.. Hello Adam, Please see inline ... Hi Robert, Yes please I was referring to pure control plane RRs and bgp-free core For Intra-AS-RRs to create sessions with PEs

Re: [c-nsp] ASR opinions..

2011-08-31 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi Robert, I see, sorry bout that Now I got your point :) And you're right it's always better to keep thinks as simple as possible when/where we can adam -Original Message- From: Robert Raszuk [mailto:rob...@raszuk.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 7:03 PM To: Vitkovsky, Adam Cc

[c-nsp] MPLS DiffServ Tunneling Modes -Pipe mode

2011-08-25 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
I was just checking the Cisco IOS Multiprotocol Label Switching Configuration Guide, Release 15.0M.pdf For the IETF standards based DS-TE -and kept reading further about the Tunneling modes and that's where it got interesting They are referring to Pipe mode as QOS Tunnel that goes form CE to CE

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS DiffServ Tunneling Modes -Pipe mode

2011-08-25 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Right that's how I understood it as well It's just that document proposing the rather unusual way :) adam -Original Message- From: Arie Vayner (avayner) [mailto:avay...@cisco.com] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 2:36 PM To: Vitkovsky, Adam; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: RE: [c-nsp

Re: [c-nsp] Inter router BGP network tuning pointer?

2011-08-23 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi Scott, Looks like you are looking for this one: BGP Design and Implementation Randy Zhang, CCIE No. 5659 Micah Bartell, CCIE No. 5069 Specifically: Chapter 3 Tuning BGP Performance adam -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net

Re: [c-nsp] 6PE

2011-08-03 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
If your MPLS dies, your v6 dies. With a proper design if MPLS dies -customers should not even notice :) (MPLS-TE and FRR) adam -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mathieu Paonessa Sent: Wednesday, August

[c-nsp] rr-group and ORF capability

2011-07-06 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi there, I was configuring the rr-groups in the lab the other day and noticed that the routes are still being advertised from PEs towards the RRs where they where blocked as defined in the policy But the route-target filters should have been passed down to PEs via the ORF type-3 update -to

Re: [c-nsp] How to effect a totally stubby area in IS-IS

2011-06-25 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jared Gillis Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 11:35 PM To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] How to effect a totally stubby area in IS-IS On 06/24/2011 12:05 AM, Vitkovsky, Adam wrote: Hi there, I believe what you are looking

Re: [c-nsp] How to effect a totally stubby area in IS-IS

2011-06-24 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Hi there, I believe what you are looking for is the isis multi-area feature: = Router in the core: router isis net 49....0001.00 net 49....0001.00 is-type level-2-only log-adjacency-changes

Re: [c-nsp] BGP peer/customer routes

2011-06-01 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
-Original Message- From: Gert Doering [mailto:g...@greenie.muc.de] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 9:14 AM To: Vitkovsky, Adam Cc: vince anton; cisco-nsp Subject: Re: [c-nsp] BGP peer/customer routes Hi, On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:17:11PM +0200, Vitkovsky, Adam wrote: I believe the new customer

Re: [c-nsp] BGP peer/customer routes

2011-05-31 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
To me this appears as possible peering link abusing scenario Where you can abuse the peering link and your peer's core-links and direct all your customers to access AS5 via the peering link and AS11 core-links :) But jokes aside Because there's no need to learn prefixes of your customer over the

Re: [c-nsp] IS-IS on L3 vlan interfaces

2011-05-31 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
That makes sense as ISIS p2p adjacency is initialized by rx of a ISHs through the ES-IS protocol followed by the exchange of the IIH I was trying to figure out the mac layer mechanism difference between the p2p and lan and your post helped me to fill in the gaps Thanks a bunch Olga adam

Re: [c-nsp] downlink bgp interconnect best practices

2011-05-31 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Right I believe protecting for one element failure at a time is just enough adam -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mark Tinka Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 6:00 PM To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Cc: Gert

Re: [c-nsp] IS-IS on L3 vlan interfaces

2011-05-30 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
I was thinking maybe it has something to do with the propagation of L2 broadcasts but it appears that the ISIS-all-level-1-ISs and ISIS-all-level-2-ISs are used regardless of whether the circuit is configured as p2p or left as b-cast The two way communication is formed whe you se your own ID

Re: [c-nsp] how many maximum BGP routers can be to reside in one AS?

2011-05-26 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Nick is right Confederations will help you to scale the IGP One IGP per Confederation -no redistribution of routes between confederations If you need to redistribute bgp next-hops between confederations (to allow proper inter-confed routing in mpls environments) Carry those in BGP-ipv4-afi

Re: [c-nsp] MBGP for Multicast with VRF-Lite

2011-05-04 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
Why do you need to advertise multicast routes over BGP? It's for RPF to work. I'm not sure now but wouldn't the rpf failover to unicast safi if the route can't be find in the m-cast safi? adam ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net