March 14, 2011 1:00 AM
Posted by: Joshua Wood
Cisco,
MPLSHello all, now that we have the design, CE and PE pieces outlined let’s go over the P or provider core routers. This is really straight forward because the core routers are essentially only receiving, re-tagging and sending the traffic out again. There is more to it than that of course but you...
March 11, 2011 1:00 AM
Posted by: Joshua Wood
Cisco,
MPLSWelcome back, after the previous two posts we have the design and the client side devices. These are pretty straightforward. The client devices are obviously out of the loop when it comes to participating in the layer 2 tunneling of traffic across the providers network. Let’s take a look at the...
March 9, 2011 1:00 AM
Posted by: Joshua Wood
Cisco,
MPLSHello, now that we have the initial design laid out and now that we have some of the basic terminology outlined let’s start laying out the configs. For this lab setup I am using all Cisco 2911 routers with the Data feature set running IOS 15.1. That is a long way of saying that I am using MPLS...
March 7, 2011 1:00 AM
Posted by: Joshua Wood
Cisco,
MPLSHello, I work for an ISP. As one of the tasks that I have deploying tech that isn`t necessarily new but is new to my company is part of my job. One of the exciting techs that I get to test and deploy is called MPLS or Multi-Protocol Label Switching. And it is awesome. When I was looking at...
March 4, 2011 9:12 PM
Posted by: Joshua Wood
BGP,
MPLS,
virualizationHello world … again, I have been out of the blogging world for a while now and have decided it was time for me to get back into it. There are a number of topics that I have searched for on the InterWebs and have been frustrated that there wasn’t information or at least the information that I...
