Well, The reasons the pings were timing out was due to the load on the computer running dynamips. I moved it to a quicker computer and my pings go through.
I still have questions about need a Route Reflector, or maybe someone could suggest a better way to accomplish this. Thanks Don Hickey ----- Original Message ----- From: "netman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 8:16 PM Subject: [c-nsp] mpls and BGP question > Hi, > > I have the following situation I am trying to configure. > > We have eight 7604 routers all connected point-to-point via 10 gig links > > so something like this (10 gig network) > > R1--R2--R3--R4--R5--R6--R7--R8 > > Hanging off of each router is a companies cisco or foundry router (CE). > The > current 10 gig network supports IPTV (multicast traffic) using private > addresses. OSPF routing is configured on the 10 gig network > > Right now there are multiple T1's coming from the CE's to the Internet > Gateway. All routes are handled by static routes (not my doing) > > I need to move the intenet traffic off of the T1's and over to the 10 gig > network. > > I connected an interface on the Internet gateway router (IGW) to R5. I > cannot use sub-interfaces on the connection between R5 and the IGW. In > fact > they do no want me messing with the configuration on the IGW. > > R1--R2--R3--R4--R5--R6--R7--R8 > | > IGW > > I want to use MPLS to carry our Internet traffic from all 8 companies. I > was > thinking of one vrf for all eight companies) > > I have been playing around with dynamips, since I cant experiment on a > production network. I simulated what I wanted to do with only 5 routers > (CE--PE1--PE2--PE3--IGW) > > I was having problems getting the default route from PE3-IGW through BGP > to > PE1. It was showing up on PE2. > > on CE I created a loopback interface of 2.2.2.2/24 > on IGW I created a loopback interface of 1.1.1.1/24 > > on IGW I had a static route to 2.2.2.2 via the interface on PE3 facing the > IGW. > on CE I had a default route pointing to the interface on PE1 connect to CE > on Pe1 I had ip route vrf INTERNET 2.2.2.2 255.255.255.0 to IP address of > CE > interface > on PE3 I had the default route ip route vrf INTERNET 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 > serial1/0 IGW's ip address > > I could see the default route on PE2 when I did a sho ip route vrf > INTERNET. > > However I could not see it on PE1 issuing the same command. > > Reading somewhere on the Internet I made PE1 and PE3 route reflector > clients > for PE2. > > I now had the route at PE1 . > I turned on debug ip icmp on all routers > > I did an extended ping on CE to IGW using the ip address to 1.1.1.1 (IGW > loopback) and from 2.2.2.2 (CE loopback) > > The debug on router IGW - showed it sent a reply src 1.1.1.1 dest 2.2.2.2 > the debug on router CE - showed it received a reply from src 1.1.1.1 for > dest 2.2.2.2 > > However the success rate on CE was 0 %. (even though the debug showed it > received the reply) > > So here is my question. > > On the example above do I need to have a router reflector for this to > work? > > If so, if PE5 was the RR, would I need to include all the other PE routers > as clients? > > Finally, is there an easier way to accomplish this task. All 8 companies > share the costs of the 10 gig network and bandwdith to the Internet. So it > is a privately owned network. > > I was wanting to use MPLS for our Internet traffic, because in the future > their might be other companies that use this network as a transit from one > location to another. I would like to keep it seperate from our traffic. > > I have no problems reading if someone were to have a nice link to send me. > I > have been working on this for too long and would like to knwo if I am on > the > right track or if there is a better way to implement a solution. > > Thanks > > Don Hickey > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/