Re: [c-nsp] RPKI extended-community RFC8097

2020-12-21 Thread Robert Raszuk
Thx, R. On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 5:03 PM wrote: > > Robert Raszuk > > Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2020 10:02 AM > > > > > As far as I know, no way to set "ineligible" from a route-map. Is > there? > > > > A workaround could be to set unreacha

Re: [c-nsp] RPKI extended-community RFC8097

2020-12-19 Thread Robert Raszuk
r with a knob. The question to ask if you want to advertise INVALID paths around ? Even if not best path once you enable add-paths it may be advertised. Thx, R. On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 10:47 AM Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 10:13:36AM +0100, Robert Raszuk wrot

Re: [c-nsp] RPKI extended-community RFC8097

2020-12-19 Thread Robert Raszuk
Jakob, It has been a while, but IIRC the original idea for the validation was that regardless if this is done by configuration enabling pre-best path eligibility or in route map no path will be dropped. At no point in the BGP design discussions there was a plan to automatically do any of this. So

Re: [c-nsp] cisco software only access - mainly XRv and CSR1000v

2020-09-24 Thread Robert Raszuk
I think Aaron maybe looking for real thing :) For CSR there is free trial for 60-days with 100 Kbps max throughput if that is of any help. https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/routers/cloud-services-router-1000v-series/sales-tool-c96-730727.pdf You can just download from CCO

Re: [c-nsp] BGP Multipath

2020-08-13 Thread Robert Raszuk
You need eiBGP multipath for this. https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_bgp/configuration/15-s/irg-15-s-book/irg-eibgp-multipath-for-nonvrf-interfaces.html Thx, R. On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 1:54 AM Yham wrote: > Hello Gentlemen, > > I wanted to configure whether BGP

Re: [c-nsp] Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-19 Thread Robert Raszuk
> > One of the advantages cited for SRv6 over MPLS is that the packet contains >> a record of where it has been. >> > Not really ... packets are not tourists in a bus. First there are real studies proving that most large production networks for the goal of good TE only need to place 1, 2 or 3

Re: [c-nsp] Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-19 Thread Robert Raszuk
But talking about commodity isn't this mainly Broadcom ? And is there single chip there which does not support line rate IP ? Or is there any chip which supports MPLS and cost less then IP/MPLS one ? On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 1:22 PM Benny Lyne Amorsen via cisco-nsp < cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net>

Re: [c-nsp] Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-19 Thread Robert Raszuk
xes. r. On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 1:04 PM Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 19/Jun/20 12:29, Robert Raszuk wrote: > > Saku, > > > > What you are saying is technically true but not realistically important. > > > > Why - the answer is history of PTX. > >

Re: [c-nsp] Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-19 Thread Robert Raszuk
Saku, What you are saying is technically true but not realistically important. Why - the answer is history of PTX. It was originally designed and architected on the very basis of hardware cost and performance when you would only need to switch at rates MPLS. Well real world showed that you

Re: [c-nsp] Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-18 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi Saku, To your IGP point let me observe that OSPF runs over IP and ISIS does not. That is first fundamental difference. There are customers using both all over the world and therefore any suggestion to just use OSPFv3 is IMHO quite unrealistic. Keep in mind that OSPF hierarchy is 2 (or 3 with

Re: [c-nsp] Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-17 Thread Robert Raszuk
> > Anything that can support LDPv4 today can support LDPv6, in hardware. > While I am trying to stay out of this interesting discussion the above statement is not fully correct. Yes in the MPLS2MPLS path you are correct, But ingress and egress switching vectors are very different for LDPv6 as

Re: [c-nsp] LDPv6 Census Check

2020-06-12 Thread Robert Raszuk
> > I'm not sure why this deep label stack keeps popping, if we need > multiple levels of tunneling, we need it in IP too, and it's almost > more expensive in IP. > Well imagine you need only one level of tunneling but rich ECMP. Then with IP encap (even MPLS app demux carried in UDP) you just

Re: [c-nsp] LDPv6 Census Check

2020-06-11 Thread Robert Raszuk
> Well, we operate a single IS-IS L2 domain across 3 continents. > > We use what-I'd-call aggressive IS-IS detection and convergence timers, > in addition to BFD and LFA/IP-FRR. > > We do very okay. > No doubt. However one network is not equal the other. Especially SP/ISP network requirements

Re: [c-nsp] LDPv6 Census Check

2020-06-11 Thread Robert Raszuk
> Seems weird, because neither LDP or SR implies globally significant > labels, implementation choice. What SR does imply is a continuous > block of labels of equal size in domain. > LDP or MPLS LSPs require hop by hop label swapping (directly connected or over say IP tunnels). So labels in LDP

Re: [c-nsp] LDPv6 Census Check

2020-06-11 Thread Robert Raszuk
ore aggressive hence significantly reducing connectivity restoration times upon failures. Many thx, R. On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 12:15 PM Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 11/Jun/20 11:57, Robert Raszuk wrote: > > > Nope that was not the main reason. > > Main reason was the be

Re: [c-nsp] LDPv6 Census Check

2020-06-11 Thread Robert Raszuk
> > I don't like to conflate these two; SR is great, SRv6 is horrible > abomination. SR is what MPLS should have been day1, but it probably > was easier to market LDP than to say 'we need to change all IGP > protocols'. > Nope that was not the main reason. Main reason was the belief that labels

Re: [c-nsp] RPKI validation weirdness

2020-05-08 Thread Robert Raszuk
Lukas, True. But I am actually not sure why RPKI state could not just expire by itself say every 12 months unless renewed by the owner ? Just like DNS name fee :) Thx, R. On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 12:02 PM Lukas Tribus wrote: > Hello Robert, > > On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 11:42, Robe

Re: [c-nsp] RPKI validation weirdness

2020-05-08 Thread Robert Raszuk
chain cares about RPKI - this entire story of using this for validation becomes pretty weak. And this is no longer NOT-FOUND. You get false INVALIDs which some may apply to suppress or drop. Best, R. On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 11:32 AM Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 8/May/20 11:23, Robert Ras

Re: [c-nsp] RPKI validation weirdness

2020-05-07 Thread Robert Raszuk
, 2020 at 1:13 AM Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 7/May/20 22:55, Robert Raszuk wrote: > > > Hi Pierre, > > > > I think this is well known bug on XE. > > In Cisco-land, this is a feature, not a bug. > > That said, there

Re: [c-nsp] RPKI validation weirdness

2020-05-07 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi Pierre, I think this is well known bug on XE. We just had a thread week or so back on this list. You need to enable extended community to carry the validation state as otherwise XE considers IBGP learned paths by default as VALID. I think Cisco is already backporting the fixes for this -

Re: [c-nsp] ospf auto-cost reference-bandwidth on modern gigabit networks

2020-04-30 Thread Robert Raszuk
AM Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 30/Apr/20 11:31, Robert Raszuk wrote: > > > The problem here is that you are all correct in a sense :) The > fundamental > > issue is that routing protocols today just don't know how to create > stable > > routing topologie

Re: [c-nsp] ospf auto-cost reference-bandwidth on modern gigabit networks

2020-04-30 Thread Robert Raszuk
> I just don't think the topologies are realistic for BW based. Very true. It is like GPS putting all cars on the big and congested highway when you have a totally empty asphalt side road next to it :) The BW based IGP metric mapping comes from times of F/R, 64 kbps satellite uplinks and zyxel

Re: [c-nsp] RPKI extended-community RFC8097

2020-04-18 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi Ben, On XE and Classic: > 1. you can only preform validation on eBGP-received routes; > 2. any iBGP-received route will get marked "Valid" unless it has a 8097 > extcomm to the contrary; and > 2. bestpath selection will prefer "Valid" to "Unknown", at the first- > step in the selection

Re: [c-nsp] RPKI extended-community RFC8097

2020-04-18 Thread Robert Raszuk
Right Saku - the filtering is best to be done on the ASBRs facing eBGP. However in some topologies you may not have all paths on all ASBRs and there you need to validate on all BGP speakers (or at least RRs). If you do have all external paths on all ASBRs - case solved - leave IBGP alone. Using

Re: [c-nsp] Default Route recalculated every 60 seconds.

2020-04-18 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi Bradley, >From my cisco days I recall that you should not be seeing RIB being updated over and over with the same route even if BGP keeps sending you implicit withdraws in the form of new BGP UPDATEs. Of course I will not tell you if the above is still identical today on all XE, NX & XR :)

Re: [c-nsp] SD-WAN design for large scale

2020-03-26 Thread Robert Raszuk
> > Moving to a session based approach instead of a tunnel based approach. DTLS session based is using UDP and is shipping from Sproute Networks for a many years now. It scales fantastic in a full mesh fashion too ! They also have all cloud based multi tenant controller so both API and GUI

Re: [c-nsp] [External] SDx open standard?

2020-03-26 Thread Robert Raszuk
> The standardization is coming, check out https://www.mef.net/mef-3-0-sd-wan I spent 10 min browsing MEF web site and still do not know what "MEF" stands for ... Looks to me like yet one more commercial entity to drain a little bit of cash out of the vendors while perhaps help with marketing

Re: [c-nsp] [j-nsp] Internet monitoring in case of general issues

2020-03-15 Thread Robert Raszuk
d some would like network to be a little bit more smart :) Best, R. On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 12:31 PM Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 15/Mar/20 12:56, Robert Raszuk wrote: > > All, > > > > It seems that most answers and in fact the question itself assumes that > all >

Re: [c-nsp] big uptime - what you got ?

2020-02-11 Thread Robert Raszuk
https://puck.nether.net/mailman/options/cisco-nsp On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 2:49 PM twall wrote: > How do we unsubscribe from this list? > > On 10/02/2020 15:39, Tom Hill wrote: > > On 10/02/2020 15:35, Aaron Gould wrote: > >> dsw2-4503#sh ver | in IOS > >> > >> Cisco IOS Software, Catalyst

Re: [c-nsp] show isis neighbors - system id shown

2020-02-02 Thread Robert Raszuk
> is there a reason why ? Looks to me like you are pretty fast in repetitive show commands :) What actually may be happening here is that adj. comes up fast and at this point your router does not yet have the dynamic name. After some time it receives it from the neighbor via flooding in TLV

Re: [c-nsp] Rant: ASR1000 MPLS (not) load-balancing

2020-01-02 Thread Robert Raszuk
> > There is no reason for IP to simpler or more complex in control-plane > compared > to MPLS. Disagree. WIth flat MPLS transport labels must be present to reach all of your 100s or 1000s of LSP endpoints in another IGP area or your other global AS. Think VPN Option-C With IP transport all I

Re: [c-nsp] Rant: ASR1000 MPLS (not) load-balancing

2020-01-02 Thread Robert Raszuk
like Arista FlexRoute .. the advantages of LEM here are getting very marginal for the significant cost of control plane complexity. Best, R. On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 4:19 PM Saku Ytti wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 at 17:08, Robert Raszuk wrote: > > > But for me from the perspective of num

Re: [c-nsp] Rant: ASR1000 MPLS (not) load-balancing

2020-01-02 Thread Robert Raszuk
1 bug free 2020, R. On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 3:46 PM Saku Ytti wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 at 15:46, Robert Raszuk wrote: > > > >> Hence I'd always prefer transit nodes to use solely the MPLS stack for > any clues on how to load-share. > > > > That may not be a

Re: [c-nsp] Rant: ASR1000 MPLS (not) load-balancing

2020-01-02 Thread Robert Raszuk
> Hence I'd always prefer transit nodes to use solely the MPLS stack for any > clues on how to load-share. That may not be a good idea. Think about SR-MPLS and global labels with say 5 TE segment nodes (hops). As MPLS header would be identical all flows travelling via such TE path would get

Re: [c-nsp] Seamless MPLS interacting with flat LDP domains

2019-05-02 Thread Robert Raszuk
Radu, The MPLS in modern DC is none starter purely from technology pov. In modern DCs compute nodes are your tenant PEs all talking to rest of the fabric L3. So if you want to roll MPLS you would need to do that to the compute nodes. That means that with exact match you will see in MSDCs

Re: [c-nsp] Seamless MPLS interacting with flat LDP domains

2019-04-30 Thread Robert Raszuk
ogy or solution for getting me TE capability > in IP :) > > Remember when we used to do “no ip source-route” or “ip option ignore” … > > > > adam > > > > *From:* Robert Raszuk > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 30, 2019 4:27 PM > *To:* adamv0...@netconsultings.com > *Cc:*

Re: [c-nsp] Seamless MPLS interacting with flat LDP domains

2019-04-30 Thread Robert Raszuk
about making the network summarization work again - without need for more hacks and layers - which this "seamless mpls" is a pure 999,9 example of :) Best, R. On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 5:04 PM wrote: > > Robert Raszuk > > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 3:01 PM > > > >

Re: [c-nsp] Seamless MPLS interacting with flat LDP domains

2019-04-30 Thread Robert Raszuk
vanilla IP transport for any service you like to offer. On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:46 PM Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 30/Apr/19 16:00, Robert Raszuk wrote: > > > > Yes Mark ... numerous both in WAN and DC space. > > > > In fact entire Contrail was based on L3VPN over UDP

Re: [c-nsp] Seamless MPLS interacting with flat LDP domains

2019-04-30 Thread Robert Raszuk
vendors so they like to keep you tight to LDP :) Best, R. On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 2:56 PM Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 29/Apr/19 15:53, Robert Raszuk wrote: > > > Even better to get rid of transport MPLS all together ... There is > nothing > > in LDP MPLS which would

Re: [c-nsp] Seamless MPLS interacting with flat LDP domains

2019-04-29 Thread Robert Raszuk
Even better to get rid of transport MPLS all together ... There is nothing in LDP MPLS which would be of any value as compared with basic IP UDP encap. Of course you can still run all of your L3VPNs or EVPNs if you wish so over IP transport. Then you no longer need to carry 1000s of /32s in your

Re: [c-nsp] IS-IS as PE-CE protocol

2019-03-21 Thread Robert Raszuk
ument redefines this high-order bit in the default metric field in TLVs 128 and 130 to be the up/down bit." On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 5:13 PM Victor Sudakov wrote: > Robert Raszuk wrote: > > > > > > > > A protocol designed to speak b

Re: [c-nsp] IS-IS as PE-CE protocol

2019-03-21 Thread Robert Raszuk
Yes - the examples are there on the net for most BGP resistant customers and non managed CPEs ... But as others already said all biggest SPs which are still offering L3VPNs are only doing BGP and static. On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 4:45 PM Victor Sudakov wrote: > Mark Tinka wrote: > > > > >

Re: [c-nsp] Console connections

2019-01-31 Thread Robert Raszuk
t; -Original Message- > From: cisco-nsp On Behalf Of Robert > Raszuk > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2019 4:28 PM > To: Cisco NSPs > Subject: [c-nsp] Console connections > > This message originates from outside of your organisation. > > Hello, > > What would yo

[c-nsp] Console connections

2019-01-31 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hello, What would you all recommend these days for min 8-12 port rack mounted terminal servers to talk to various vendor's router and switches console ports ? For years I used cisco 2511 but now it is history .. so what's the best cisco or not cisco successor for it ? It would be awesome if it

Re: [c-nsp] Add-Path Selection on IOS-XE (maybe also on other platforms)

2018-10-29 Thread Robert Raszuk
Have you considered just using Diverse Path from both RRs instead of add-paths ? RFC 6774 That way you will have two paths not 4 on the clients and no problem you are facing :-) Cheers, R. On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:25 AM Christian wrote: > Hi list, > > considering my following situation,

[c-nsp] show ospf lsdb - topology drawing

2018-10-25 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi, Would anyone be able to recommend some open or closed src tool which can draw nice topology of the OSPFv2 single area0 based on the show ospf lsdb output capture ? I saw https://blog.webernetz.net/ospf-visualizer/ but looking for more tools like this proven in battle field especially those

Re: [c-nsp] BGP DFZ convergence time - FIB programming

2018-10-13 Thread Robert Raszuk
> > Sounds standard practice. > This way of (D)DoS mitigation results with cutting the poor target completely out of the network ... So the attacker succeeded very well with your assistance as legitimate users can not any more reach the guy. Is it his fault that he got attacked ? Do you also do

Re: [c-nsp] BGP DFZ convergence time - FIB programming

2018-10-11 Thread Robert Raszuk
some real valid use cases to apply bgp policies on routes *received* over IBGP ? Thx, Robert. On Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 00:13 heasley wrote: > Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 11:47:27PM +0200, Robert Raszuk: > > Decent bgp implementation should not allow iBGP learned routes to be > > subject to

Re: [c-nsp] BGP DFZ convergence time - FIB programming

2018-10-11 Thread Robert Raszuk
ype of the route. Thx, R. On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 10:38 PM James Bensley wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 15:30, Robert Raszuk wrote: > > I think the difference Mark may have in mind that iBGP routes say from > RR are advertised from RR's control plane. Many RRs today are just x86 > c

Re: [c-nsp] BGP DFZ convergence time - FIB programming

2018-10-11 Thread Robert Raszuk
> Hi Mark, > > What makes you think there would be a difference in time to load eBGP > learned routes vs. iBGP learned routes? Something from personal experience? James, I think the difference Mark may have in mind that iBGP routes say from RR are advertised from RR's control plane. Many RRs

Re: [c-nsp] [j-nsp] L3VPN/RR/PE on Same router

2018-08-17 Thread Robert Raszuk
Just to clarify ... I was not really worried about how to follow various lists - mail client does a good job to combine them into one folder, filter duplicates etc ... But when writing general reply/question to Mark today about BGP sessions I noticed it only had j-nsp - but oh the question is

Re: [c-nsp] [j-nsp] L3VPN/RR/PE on Same router

2018-08-17 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hey Mark, It has been a while > We've been running all address families on the same RR's (different > sessions, obviously, but same hardware) Out of pure curiosity how are you setting up different BGP sessions to the same RR ? I think what Adam is proposing is real TCP session isolation,

Re: [c-nsp] BGP RT Constrained Route Distribution -joke???

2012-07-27 Thread Robert Raszuk
where, in which cases, it is better compared to the hop-by-hop approach with ORF Maybe in cases where there's a RR hierarchy between the RR-Clusters in the particular Intra/Inter-AS-RR-Plane? (but in my opinion this is not an optimal design anyway) adam -Original Message- From: Robert

Re: [c-nsp] BGP RT Constrained Route Distribution -joke???

2012-07-26 Thread Robert Raszuk
Adam, RTC is a new AFI/SAFI. That's why it is enabled like any other AFI/SAFI in IOS. Best, R. I've just learned that instead of simple per neighbor cmd. that could have been configured under the template peer-policy or af-group: neighbor ip-address capability orf route-target [send |

Re: [c-nsp] L3VPN works, but not default route

2012-05-30 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi Aaron, Are you sure those type 3s do not come with DN bit set ? RFC4577: 4.2.5.1. The DN Bit When a type 3 LSA is sent from a PE router to a CE router, the DN bit [OSPF-DN] in the LSA Options field MUST be set. This is used to ensure that if any CE router sends this type 3 LSA

Re: [c-nsp] Anycast//DNS - BGP

2012-05-07 Thread Robert Raszuk
...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Robert Raszuk Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 5:48 PM To: henrry huaman Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Anycast//DNS - BGP Hi Henry, Currently we have issues with the RR (Only select the main route) That's an easy one to solve :) Try using either add-paths

Re: [c-nsp] Anycast//DNS - BGP

2012-05-04 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi Henry, Currently we have issues with the RR (Only select the main route) That's an easy one to solve :) Try using either add-paths or diverse-path on the RR. The latter is much easier as it does not require upgrade of all of your BGP speakers ! http://goo.gl/KDjlg Best, R. We want to

Re: [c-nsp] Anycast//DNS - BGP

2012-05-04 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi Matthias, it isn't quite that easy. Never heard before about the diverse-path feature on Cisco for RRs, but looking at your link it looks like to have this probably limiting restriction in most setups: 'Path diversity is configured within an AS, within a single RR cluster. That is, the RR

Re: [c-nsp] Internet inside a VRF?

2012-03-15 Thread Robert Raszuk
Jared, Oli, The problems become more complex as you have this explosion happen when someone else wants to do another hybrid solution. useful, yes, but could also be expensive.. the more different services you come up with, the more different routing table views you need to provide, the more

Re: [c-nsp] Internet inside a VRF?

2012-03-14 Thread Robert Raszuk
One additional point as I think most comments assumed such equation: Internet in a VRF = requirement for MPLS in the core. It does not. You can run mGRE encapsulation between ASBRs/PEs and the fact that behind GRE header of the packet sits vpnv4/v6 mpls label would have no bearing on the

Re: [c-nsp] Sporadic loss of LDP neighbor ...

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Raszuk
Garry, Do you see the same with mpls ldp targeted-sessions enabled (even for normal LDP p2p peers) ? At least this is something I would try first ... Thx, R. Hi *, I've been fighting this problem for quite a while, need some ideas from the collective intelligence ... On of our backbone

Re: [c-nsp] OER Question

2011-12-06 Thread Robert Raszuk
Bruce, you are fishing for an answer. And what's wrong with that ??? Cheers, R. M K wrote: Hi all, i have the below OER question i have been trying since a while but i am not sure about the solution can anyone please help ? Configure R4 to be the master controller and R1 and R2 to be

Re: [c-nsp] general question on VRFs and FIBs...

2011-09-27 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi Gert, address first, VRF second. Well no one sane would do that ;) I believe what Derick was asking was why not have incoming_interface/table_id - prefix lookup. And while in software each VRF has separate RIB and FIB data structures for reasons already discussed on L3VPN IETF mailing

Re: [c-nsp] general question on VRFs and FIBs...

2011-09-27 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi Derick, I previously blogged that a (totally hypothetical) multi-tenant network built entirely with PBR or FBF would not pass audit because of a lack of separate RIB and separate FIB structures for each tenant in the network. Why wouldn't this pass audit? OpenFlow is similar. Well I

Re: [c-nsp] general question on VRFs and FIBs...

2011-09-27 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi Keegan, over another. However, if the vrf's all have separate tables in the real world then that should require the table lookup to come before the prefix lookup. If not there would be no way to figure out which fib to search. For packets coming from customer (CE) there is no need for

Re: [c-nsp] Fw: Re: ReUSE AS number per VRF

2011-09-03 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi, By reusing the AS number you mean you will configure the same AS on more then one customer CE right then on each EBGP PE-CE session ? If this is right assumption you need to be careful on the other side so the routes will be accepted by the remote CE ... members of the same VPN. By default

Re: [c-nsp] ASR opinions..

2011-08-31 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi Adam, The discussion is about control plane RRs. Therefor in control plane RRs you do not need to have any LSP on those nor populate 3107 to RIB/LFIB. A default will work equally well for Next Hop Tracking to consider your BGP next hops as valid in any address family (if that is your

Re: [c-nsp] ASR opinions..

2011-08-31 Thread Robert Raszuk
carry few extra loopback addresses in my IGP. Cheers, R. adam -Original Message- From: Robert Raszuk [mailto:rob...@raszuk.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 2:15 PM To: Vitkovsky, Adam Cc: mti...@globaltransit.net; Mack McBride; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ASR

Re: [c-nsp] ASR opinions..

2011-08-31 Thread Robert Raszuk
IGP. Cheers, R. adam -Original Message- From: Robert Raszuk [mailto:rob...@raszuk.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 2:15 PM To: Vitkovsky, Adam Cc: mti...@globaltransit.net; Mack McBride; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ASR opinions.. Hi Adam

Re: [c-nsp] WARNING: Netflow Data Export Hardware assisted NAT not supported on 76xx/65xx on the same interface

2011-08-30 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi Mark, Don't speak too soon - we've come across a couple of cases in IOS XR where a configuration will be committed with references made to other bits of configurations that don't yet exist. This is so by design not by mistake or bug. This is called forward referencing. Example quote from

Re: [c-nsp] WARNING: Netflow Data Export Hardware assisted NAT not supported on 76xx/65xx on the same interface

2011-08-29 Thread Robert Raszuk
My advice as an ex-cisco guy to you all would be to forget about documentation, marketing, TMEs or consultants. Instead get the router/switch and test it with the release you plan to use. Each BU have bunch of routers/switches which they do ship left and right to customers to try before you

Re: [c-nsp] ASR opinions..

2011-08-29 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi Mark, It's just that the ASR1001 will only install 512,000 entries into the FIB, and we're not yet sure what a control-plane only router (route reflector role) will do when we exceed this maximum. You do not need any BGP route to be send to RIB and FIB if you are control plane only router

Re: [c-nsp] WARNING: Netflow Data Export Hardware assisted NAT not supported on 76xx/65xx on the same interface

2011-08-27 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi Dale, In the right vendor shop no matter how many networkers sessions you attend there should be no need to make any thing apparent from the power-point slides. If CLI/parser allows to co-exist any feature combination - they are expected to work. I am with Matthew here. If they do not work

Re: [c-nsp] Inter router BGP network tuning pointer?

2011-08-23 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi, Let's keep in mind that there has been number of BGP enhancements since this book was published which are rather aimed at automatic self-tuning so overwriting defaults may actually lead to much worse behaviour :) To bring a few examples ... RR Scale BGP Selective Table Download –

Re: [c-nsp] two bgp sesion on one router

2011-08-23 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi zaidoon, Nope - I would not recommend that. Your better choice is to peer between loopbacks and use disable-connected-check knob or BGP multihop. Two sessions will cause you to get the same paths two times wasting a bit of control plane memory and CPU inbound processing - but that's about

Re: [c-nsp] two bgp sesion on one router

2011-08-23 Thread Robert Raszuk
scenarios than a single threaded design. Of course I would also diversify the connections onto different linecards/slots as well. Mike On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Robert Raszuk rob...@raszuk.net wrote: Hi zaidoon, Nope - I would not recommend that. Your better choice is to peer