Yes I am running OSPF as my IGP.

When the link is failed, I do see a route to the other router via a legitimate 
interface.


On Jun 28, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Adam E Barratt (Network Operations) wrote:

> Grady,
> 
> Do you have an underlying IGP that you're running for the LDP?  (ISIS or 
> OSPF)?  I'm thinking your LDP is just using the connected routes between the 
> MLXs and when you fail a link, it has no IP route between them so it doesn't 
> have a path.  The BGP will be used to transfer customer routes between PEs... 
> if the MLXs are simply P (core) devices and not facing customers, then there 
> is no need for BGP on them (unless you're using BGP for the IGP, but I don't 
> like the hold-down time for it to react to a link/route failure).
> 
> -Adam
> 
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> 
> 
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:36:21 -0500
>> From: Grady Neely<[email protected]>
>> To: foundry-nsp<[email protected]>
>> Subject: [f-nsp] 3-node MPLS with MLXs
>> Message-ID:<[email protected]>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have 3 MLX nodes connected in a ring configuration via 10gig links, call 
>> them R1, R2, R3.  I also have MPLS up and running via BGP between the three.
>> 
>> All works well as long as all the phy links are up.  But if I fail one of 
>> the 10gig links, i.e. the link between R2 and R3, the MPLS tunnel between 
>> them goes down and does not reroute around the other side of the ring, via 
>> R1.  Is this normal?
>> 
>> I am new to MPLS, but being a routed protocol, I was hoping it would see the 
>> route along R1 and re-establish the MPLS tunnel.
>> 
>> Here are the MPLS configs of each router:
>> 
>> R1 (10.27.250.1)
>> 
>> router bgp
>>  local-as 1027
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.2 remote-as 1027
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.2 update-source loopback 1
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.3 remote-as 1027
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.3 update-source loopback 1
>> 
>>  address-family ipv4 unicast
>>  redistribute connected
>>  redistribute static
>>  redistribute ospf match internal
>>  redistribute ospf match external2
>>  exit-address-family
>> 
>>  address-family ipv4 multicast
>>  exit-address-family
>> 
>>  address-family ipv6 unicast
>>  exit-address-family
>> 
>>  address-family ipv6 multicast
>>  exit-address-family
>> 
>>  address-family vpnv4 unicast
>>  exit-address-family
>> 
>>  address-family l2vpn vpls
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.2 activate
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.2 send-community extended
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.3 activate
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.3 send-community extended
>>  exit-address-family
>> end of BGP configuration
>> 
>> router mpls
>> 
>> 
>>   mpls-interface ve8
>>   ldp-enable
>> 
>>   mpls-interface ve9
>>   ldp-enable
>> 
>>   mpls-interface ve10
>>   ldp-enable
>> 
>>  vpls MGMT 3
>>   auto-discovery
>>   vlan 3
>>    tagged ethe 1/1 eth 1/4 eth 1/7
>> 
>> 
>> R2 (10.27.250.2):
>> 
>> router bgp
>>  local-as 1027
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.1 remote-as 1027
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.1 update-source loopback 1
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.3 remote-as 1027
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.3 update-source loopback 1
>> 
>>  address-family ipv4 unicast
>>  redistribute connected
>>  exit-address-family
>> 
>>  address-family ipv4 multicast
>>  exit-address-family
>> 
>>  address-family ipv6 unicast
>>  exit-address-family
>> 
>>  address-family ipv6 multicast
>>  exit-address-family
>> 
>>  address-family vpnv4 unicast
>>  exit-address-family
>> 
>>  address-family l2vpn vpls
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.1 activate
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.1 send-community extended
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.3 activate
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.3 send-community extended
>>  exit-address-family
>> end of BGP configuration
>> 
>> router mpls
>> 
>> 
>>   mpls-interface ve3
>>   ldp-enable
>> 
>>   mpls-interface ve4
>>   ldp-enable
>> 
>>  vpls MGMT 3
>>   auto-discovery
>>   vlan 3
>>    tagged ethe 4/3 to 4/5 ethe 4/7 ethe 4/13 ethe 4/19
>> 
>> R3 (10.27.250.3):
>> 
>> router bgp
>>  local-as 1027
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.1 remote-as 1027
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.1 update-source loopback 1
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.2 remote-as 1027
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.2 update-source loopback 1
>> 
>>  address-family ipv4 unicast
>>  redistribute connected
>>  exit-address-family
>> 
>>  address-family ipv4 multicast
>>  exit-address-family
>> 
>>  address-family ipv6 unicast
>>  exit-address-family
>> 
>>  address-family ipv6 multicast
>>  exit-address-family
>> 
>>  address-family vpnv4 unicast
>>  exit-address-family
>> 
>>  address-family l2vpn vpls
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.1 activate
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.1 send-community extended
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.2 activate
>>  neighbor 10.27.250.2 send-community extended
>>  exit-address-family
>> end of BGP configuration
>> 
>> 
>> router mpls
>> 
>> 
>>   mpls-interface ve2
>>   ldp-enable
>> 
>>   mpls-interface ve3
>>   ldp-enable
>> 
>>  vpls MGMT 3
>>   auto-discovery
>>   vlan 3
>>    tagged ethe 4/1 to 4/4 ethe 4/7 ethe 4/13 ethe 4/19
>> 
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