Re: [c-nsp] Best Practices for connecting MPLS core to Internet?

2011-08-09 Thread Mark Tinka
On Tuesday, August 09, 2011 09:15:10 PM Gert Doering wrote: > JFTR, the 7206 and 7204 have the same footprint. The -04 > just has two slots bolted over with metal plates and a > different eeprom (and some series even had the backplane > connectors there). Yes, actually. That's right! We have onl

Re: [c-nsp] Best Practices for connecting MPLS core to Internet?

2011-08-09 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 08:48:39PM +0800, Mark Tinka wrote: > > 1x 7204 VXR NPE-G2 in a colo somewhere as MPLS P/PE > > (P-router except for a single EoMPLS) > > Get a 7206 chassis, the price difference with the smaller > cousin is nothing to worry about, unless you have space > constraints

Re: [c-nsp] Best Practices for connecting MPLS core to Internet?

2011-08-09 Thread Mark Tinka
On Monday, August 08, 2011 10:43:19 PM Ross Halliday wrote: > Unfortunately I think I haven't communicated our scale > very well. Most of the network is a single 6509 at a > telephone central office with equipment hanging off of > it. The primary goal is to carry voice traffic around. > Our data s

Re: [c-nsp] Best Practices for connecting MPLS core to Internet?

2011-08-08 Thread Ross Halliday
Very much appreciate the feedback, you raise some valid points and introduce a few neat ideas to me. > It's possible that I could be misunderstanding what you're > trying to do, but this sounds overly complex for what you're > trying to achieve. Unfortunately I think I haven't communicated our s

Re: [c-nsp] Best Practices for connecting MPLS core to Internet?

2011-08-05 Thread Mark Tinka
On Friday, August 05, 2011 03:11:15 AM Ross Halliday wrote: > Does this all sound right to you folks? Am I completely > insane? Should I even bother hiding the private AS > number? I think this will accomplish my goal but I'd > like to hear what other people are doing. Most of this > stuff I've le

Re: [c-nsp] Best Practices for connecting MPLS core to Internet?

2011-08-04 Thread Pshem Kowalczyk
Hi, On 5 August 2011 07:11, Ross Halliday wrote: > Hello list, > > We're working on getting ourselves over to an MPLS core and I've hit a bit of > a snag with how we're going to actually connect it to the Internet. Our > current setup is very simple: We run eBGP on an edge router with a public

[c-nsp] Best Practices for connecting MPLS core to Internet?

2011-08-04 Thread Ross Halliday
Hello list, We're working on getting ourselves over to an MPLS core and I've hit a bit of a snag with how we're going to actually connect it to the Internet. Our current setup is very simple: We run eBGP on an edge router with a public ASN and our IGP is OSPF. Of course with MPLS we're looking