Re: [c-nsp] MPLS best practices question

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 05:43:49 pm Mateusz Blaszczyk wrote: > I am curious - what is your MPLS L3 VPNs running on ? > (if you provide such) It's two different companies - I just happen to spend time at both :-). Translated: different operations. Mark. signature.asc Description: This is a d

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS best practices question

2010-06-29 Thread Mateusz Blaszczyk
On 29 June 2010 09:31, Mark Tinka wrote: > On Tuesday 29 June 2010 03:10:07 am Christopher E. Brown > wrote: > >> That only works until aq high $$$ customer starts >>  demanding 9000byte payloads for their IP in vrf or VPLS >>  service... > > We run two networks - one for IP Transit, another for >

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS best practices question

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 03:10:07 am Christopher E. Brown wrote: > That only works until aq high $$$ customer starts > demanding 9000byte payloads for their IP in vrf or VPLS > service... We run two networks - one for IP Transit, another for national Metro-E (different companies, so don't thin

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS best practices question

2010-06-28 Thread Christopher E. Brown
On 6/23/10 7:41 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > On Wednesday 23 June 2010 08:31:03 pm Peter Rathlev wrote: > >> We generally use the highest supported MTU (often 9216 >> bytes) on all internal links, in an effort to make an >> eventual transition easier later. > > We initially considered this, but when

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS best practices question

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On Wednesday 23 June 2010 08:31:03 pm Peter Rathlev wrote: > We generally use the highest supported MTU (often 9216 > bytes) on all internal links, in an effort to make an > eventual transition easier later. We initially considered this, but when some platforms talk 9,216 bytes, others talk 9,

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS best practices question

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On Wednesday 23 June 2010 10:27:24 pm Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) wrote: > Hmm, IGP/LDP sync addresses a different issue than > GR/NSF? I would consider either "IGP/LDP sync" or "LDP > session protection" (either one or both) to be best > practices.. I personally find LDP session protection > m

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS best practices question

2010-06-23 Thread Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)
> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 09:49 -0500, cisco...@secureobscure.com wrote: > > 2) OSPF timers or BFD? Currently my approach has been ospf timers of > > 1/4, its fast and seems pretty compatible with everything I have tried > > it on. All of my links are direct between routed ports so there are no > > i

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS best practices question

2010-06-23 Thread Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)
Hey, > > 1) IGP LDP Sync. I am really looking for some > > direction as to where it makes sense or not to use. The > > same is also true for the IGP LDP startup delay timers. > > We don't use it - we instead use IETF Graceful Restart for > LDP and IS-IS. Hmm, IGP/LDP sync addresses a dif

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS best practices question

2010-06-23 Thread Mounir Mohamed
Please find my comments inline. > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:49 PM, wrote: > >> Good morning everyone, >> >> >> >> If I may have a moment of your time, I'm approaching a small MPLS >> deployment >> (L3 VPN functionality only, no TE or L2VPN) on existing infrastructure >> primarily 6500's & ASR1k

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS best practices question

2010-06-23 Thread Peter Rathlev
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 09:49 -0500, cisco...@secureobscure.com wrote: > 2) OSPF timers or BFD? Currently my approach has been ospf timers of > 1/4, its fast and seems pretty compatible with everything I have tried > it on. All of my links are direct between routed ports so there are no > intermediat

Re: [c-nsp] MPLS best practices question

2010-06-22 Thread Mark Tinka
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 10:49:34 pm cisco...@secureobscure.com wrote: > 1) IGP LDP Sync. I am really looking for some > direction as to where it makes sense or not to use. The > same is also true for the IGP LDP startup delay timers. We don't use it - we instead use IETF Graceful Restart

[c-nsp] MPLS best practices question

2010-06-22 Thread cisconsp
Good morning everyone, If I may have a moment of your time, I'm approaching a small MPLS deployment (L3 VPN functionality only, no TE or L2VPN) on existing infrastructure primarily 6500's & ASR1k's and would very much like the opinion of the list on some best practices. There are several techno