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rubensk at gmail

Oct 27, 2009, 1:28 PM

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MPLS x-connect to router itself

I was wondering if IOS MPLS routers (ME6500 PFC3C in my case) can
establish an MPLS x-connect to itself, although it's not the IP
address of router-id but another loopback address added for this
purpose.

The idea here is to avoid converting the port to switchport (MUX-UNI
allow switchport and MPLS x-connects but not routed interfaces and
switchport on the same physical interface) and to use the "backup
peer" resource so if the loopback interface have been shutdown to
force fail-over the router would then connect to another PE to deliver
the circuit.

Lab is currently in use by another scenario, and it would also not
tell me whether this is an IOS or platform limitation.

Rubens
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peter at rathlev

Oct 27, 2009, 2:34 PM

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Re: MPLS x-connect to router itself [In reply to]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 18:28 -0200, Rubens Kuhl wrote:
> I was wondering if IOS MPLS routers (ME6500 PFC3C in my case) can
> establish an MPLS x-connect to itself, although it's not the IP
> address of router-id but another loopback address added for this
> purpose.
>
> The idea here is to avoid converting the port to switchport (MUX-UNI
> allow switchport and MPLS x-connects but not routed interfaces and
> switchport on the same physical interface) and to use the "backup
> peer" resource so if the loopback interface have been shutdown to
> force fail-over the router would then connect to another PE to deliver
> the circuit.
>
> Lab is currently in use by another scenario, and it would also not
> tell me whether this is an IOS or platform limitation.

As far as I can tell at least the Sup720 PFC3C running SXI1 won't do it:

Router(config)#int gi4/3.1
Router(config-subif)#enc dot 60
Router(config-subif)#exit
Router(config)#int gi4/3.2
Router(config-subif)#enc dot 61
Router(config-subif)#exit
Router(config-subif)#int lo60
Router(config-if)#ip addr 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.255
Router(config)#int lo61
Router(config-if)#ip addr 10.0.0.2 255.255.255.255
Router(config)#int gi4/3.1
Router(config-subif)#xconnect 10.0.0.2 10 encapsulation mpls
Local switching to peer address 10.0.0.2 is not supported
Router(config-subif)#do sh run int gi4/3.1
Building configuration...

Current configuration : 62 bytes
!
interface GigabitEthernet4/3.1
encapsulation dot1Q 60
end

That would have been a very nice thing though. :-)

--
Peter


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perc69 at gmail

Oct 28, 2009, 1:31 AM

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Re: MPLS x-connect to router itself [In reply to]

Hi.

> I was wondering if IOS MPLS routers (ME6500 PFC3C in my case) can
> establish an MPLS x-connect to itself, although it's not the IP
> address of router-id but another loopback address added for this
> purpose.

In Cisco language, this is called "Local Switching" (see
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/docs/ios/12_0s/feature/guide/fslocal.html).

> Lab is currently in use by another scenario, and it would also not
> tell me whether this is an IOS or platform limitation.

There is a vast number of restrictions on this feature. If it fit your
needs, you're a lucky one :) Personally, I'm very much miss "Vlan to
Vlan different interfaces" on GSR, but it's at least supported on IOS
XR (though undocumented).

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achatz at forthnet

Oct 28, 2009, 3:41 AM

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Re: MPLS x-connect to router itself [In reply to]

Probably not very relevant, but 7600/ES cards support local connect.

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Tassos

Rubens Kuhl wrote on 27/10/2009 22:28:
> I was wondering if IOS MPLS routers (ME6500 PFC3C in my case) can
> establish an MPLS x-connect to itself, although it's not the IP
> address of router-id but another loopback address added for this
> purpose.
>
> The idea here is to avoid converting the port to switchport (MUX-UNI
> allow switchport and MPLS x-connects but not routed interfaces and
> switchport on the same physical interface) and to use the "backup
> peer" resource so if the loopback interface have been shutdown to
> force fail-over the router would then connect to another PE to deliver
> the circuit.
>
> Lab is currently in use by another scenario, and it would also not
> tell me whether this is an IOS or platform limitation.
>
> Rubens
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