"You stretch vlans over your mpls fabric?" Thats what VPLS is for...
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Cassidy B. Larson <c...@infowest.com> wrote: > MPLS is supposed to be “faster” than pure IP routing. It wont have to > lookup the full route in the route table.. just match the appropriate label > to the label table. > If that is true on Mikrotik, I couldn’t tell you. > > > > On Feb 17, 2017, at 3:59 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net> > wrote: > > We use it for both and then a few more tags for business clients with > multiple POPs hanging off our network. > > Works great. > > Just want to push the envelope more with my capacity. > > > *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com <af-boun...@afmug.com>] *On > Behalf Of *Jason McKemie > *Sent:* Friday, February 17, 2017 3:36 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] MPLS > > I was debating on whether to just use VPLS for my management traffic and > then routing customer traffic as normal, or put both in separate VPLS > instances. > > On Friday, February 17, 2017, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net> > wrote: > > I’m using it on 6.38 and so far so good. > > I use it all over and at the core. > > But I’m still experiencing ‘slow downs’ at the VPLS port where I don’t get > 9Gbps anymore, and it appears to be reduced to 5Gbps and 2Gbps for up/down. > > So I’m thinking of reverting back to straight OSPF and VRRP for my main > customer end routing. > > *From:* Af [mailto: <af-boun...@afmug.com>af-boun...@afmug.com] *On > Behalf Of *Jason McKemie > *Sent:* Friday, February 17, 2017 1:27 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* [AFMUG] MPLS > > I'm starting to utilize MPLS/VPLS at the edge of my network for a specific > location, but am wondering if there is any reason to not just use it all > the way back to the core. What are the pros/cons of using MPLS? I would > think that you could save some public IPs if nothing else. > > Also, has anyone had any issues with MPLS/VPLS on the latest stable > RouterOS version (6.38.1)? > > -Jason > > > -- Carl Peterson *PORT NETWORKS* 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 637-3707