May 28, 2012 2:44 AM
Posted by: Sulaiman Syed
AD,
administrative,
CCIE,
Cisco,
distance,
EIGRP,
MPLS,
router,
vpnI'll admit, the title is slightly misleading. I will not elaborate on how to use AD for the routing benefit in general. What i would do is, explain a scenario. Then manipulate AD to have the desired routing outcome. In first entry, i would just show the scenario, while the configurations and...
May 14, 2012 12:26 PM
Posted by: Sulaiman Syed
Cisco,
F1,
F2,
fabric path,
line cards,
M1,
MPLS,
Nexus,
Nexus 5000,
Nexus 7000,
OTVI have written an article few months ago touching the main differences between the F1 and M1 cards in the Cisco Nexus 7k platform. The main...
February 21, 2012 2:38 PM
Posted by: Sulaiman Syed
CCIE,
Cisco,
MPLS,
route-map,
router,
vpnThe main purpose of route targets is to provide connectivity between different MPLS-VPN networks. For example, there are three enterprises namely A, B, and C. A and B are major networks with their own MPLS-VPN. Enterprise A requires to access some servers and resources from Enterprise C. The...
October 17, 2011 12:32 AM
Posted by: Sulaiman Syed
Configure,
EIGRP,
GNS3,
how,
ios,
MPLS,
RIP,
router,
switch,
to,
vpnIn this article, i will not go deeply into the issue of configuring MPLS-VPN. The steps were mentioned very clearly in an earlier post. MPLS-VPN Tutorial...
February 10, 2011 4:44 AM
Posted by: Sulaiman Syed
Cisco,
configuration,
Dynamips,
example,
GNS3,
MPLS,
mpls vpn,
tutorial,
vpnI would like to post a simple example of how to set up MPLS-VPN for two users. This example was used from the Cisco Press book CCIE Routing and Switching . Although the book...
February 9, 2011 8:16 AM
Posted by: Sulaiman Syed
Cisco,
how mpls vpn works,
MPLS,
mpls vpn,
network,
router,
routing,
service provider,
virtual,
virtual routing,
vpnWhen a service provider connects to sites that belong to one customer that uses private address then SP will advertise those routes within his autonomous systems. This could be handled when he is serving one ogranization. What if the SP is connecting 10 customers each with three sites and all of...
February 8, 2011 3:35 AM
Posted by: Sulaiman Syed
Cisco,
how,
how mpls works,
ip,
label,
LDP,
LFIB,
MPLS,
network,
pop,
push,
QoS,
tag,
Unicast,
worksMPLS protocol uses a different mechanism to forward packets. Packets are sent based on MPLS lable instead of the conventional packet's destination IP address. It add the ability to make forwarding decisions based on other factors beside the IP address, such as traffic engineering, QoS, and privecy...
