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Re: MLPPP over MPLS
- From: Jon Lewis
- Date: Fri Feb 17 15:39:45 2006
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Jon R. Kibler wrote:
We have a customer that is implementing an MPLS network that will have 2
to 6 T1 feeds at some locations that will be using MLPPP for channel
bonding. This is a telco provided network that will be customer managed.
It's not clear from your message, but I'm assuming the MLPPP will be from
PE to CE and that the MPLS you speak of is MPLS VPN. If that's the case,
on the customer end, it's just a MLPPP, and on your end, it's an MLPPP
with an "ip vrf forwarding foo" statement. It's probably more than the
average CCNA can handle (but so are MLPPP, MPLS, and most day to day IOS
config work). Anyone who actually uses IOS on a regular basis (as opposed
to someone who crammed for an exam and knows squat) should have no trouble
with it.
The customer is being told by their router vendor that an MLPPP/MPLS
network is 'too complex' to be managed by anyone except for the router
vendor's VARs or the telco. They indicated that it would be impossible
for the customer's router vendor certified network person to come up to
speed on MLPPP/MPLS configurations and manage such a network -- that it
takes years to adequately learn how to manage that type of network
configuration.
I think someone may be confusing "providing MPLS service" with "buying
MPLS service". A customer buying MPLS VPN service never sees any of the
MPLS tags or messes with MPLS/tag-switching commands. There is no added
complexity...or at least there doesn't need to be any.
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