Re: [j-nsp] Confusing terminology for LSPs in Junos

2014-05-10 Thread John Neiberger
Got it. I tend to always think of commands as being from the perspective of the router. In this case, the perspective is the LSP itself, which has an ingress side and an egress side. That makes perfect sense. I knew they were unidirectional but I still thought from a router's perspective, the ingre

Re: [j-nsp] Confusing terminology for LSPs in Junos

2014-05-10 Thread Ben Dale
On 10 May 2014, at 2:28 pm, Tyler Christiansen wrote: > Look at it from the perspective of where the traffic is entering the LSP, > not the perspective of the router. > > When the traffic is encapsulated (enters the LSP), that's the ingress LSP. > When a packet leaves an LSP, that is the egres

Re: [j-nsp] Confusing terminology for LSPs in Junos

2014-05-09 Thread Tyler Christiansen
Look at it from the perspective of where the traffic is entering the LSP, not the perspective of the router. When the traffic is encapsulated (enters the LSP), that's the ingress LSP. When a packet leaves an LSP, that is the egress LSP. The fact that it enters or exits the router (and where it d

[j-nsp] Confusing terminology for LSPs in Junos

2014-05-09 Thread John Neiberger
I just took a Juniper MPLS and VPNs course and I have a question about the ingress and egress types of LSPs. The terminology makes zero sense to me. The LSP that is used to send traffic is called the ingress LSP, and the LSP used to receive traffic is an egress LSP. How in the heck does that make a