On 05/01/2015 12:00 PM, Mark Tinka wrote:

On 30/Apr/15 18:41, Mike wrote:
Hi,

     I'd like to ask for the collective opinion on routing in service
provider network serving broadband subscribers:

     I have an ASR1k and will be terminating PPPoE broadband
subscribers here. I'll also be terminating my primay internet feed
(BGP) here, and I the future I will have 3 providers and will be
multihomed. I also will have some MPLS vpns for certain customers.

     I think I want to have my default routing table carry mostly
loopbacks and direct interface connected routes, while I want to stuff
everything else into VRF's. Those other VRF's are likely to be
Internet (full tables), Subscribers (all the /32's for PPPoE
subscribers), and the odd vrf for any mpls vpn customers.  The
challenge is that - I think - I would want to only leak a default
route into any other non-Internet VRF that requires shared service
access to it, which should keep the table sizes down. My question is,
does this sound reasonable? Is there any reason I wouldn't want to set
things up this way?
I like simple.

Internet routes in a VRF is not simple - too dependent on hardware and
software capabilities, without having to worry about what the vendors do
with the hardware or the software in future revisions.

I know a few ISP's that went this router back in 2003, when MPLS was
all-the-rage; they're finding that tearing down this wall of complexity
is the way forward, but alas, mighty painful.


What exactly are the downsides? I don't have 100's of routers and transits and peerings and such, but if I'm going to be painting myself into a corner I'd like to know about it before it do it.

Thank you.

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