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MPLS - How does it work ?

MPLS - How does it work ?. Label (20-bits). CoS. S. TTL. 32-bits - Path Label - RSVP. L2 Header. MPLS Header. IP Packet. MPLS Header. 32-bits - VPN Label - MP-BGP. CoS. S. Label (20-bits). TTL. MPLS Label Stack. Fields Label Experimental (CoS) Stacking bit Time to live

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MPLS - How does it work ?

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  1. MPLS - How does it work ?

  2. Label (20-bits) CoS S TTL 32-bits - Path Label - RSVP L2 Header MPLS Header IP Packet MPLS Header 32-bits - VPN Label - MP-BGP CoS S Label (20-bits) TTL MPLS Label Stack • Fields • Label • Experimental (CoS) • Stacking bit • Time to live • Always set to 255 in the GX Network • VPN Label • The originating PR device when announcing the VPN route to the rest of the network assigns the VPN label and announces it as part of the MP-BGP route announcement. • The Label refers to the egress interface on the originating PR device the packet should be forwarded out. • The originating PR device will perform a POP operation on any MPLS encapsulated packet received with a valid VPN Label • A routing lookup is performed on the destination address of the inbound packet on the inbound PR in the VPN specific routing table to find the VPN Label • Path Label • Provides a path from the Ingress PR device to the Egress PR device that originated the VPN route. • All BGP routes have a next hop address • This is always the originating PR router of the route • When the route lookup is performed to find the VPN Label a recursive lookup is performed on the next hop address and this will return the Path Label • This is derived from the RSVP TE Tunnel to reach the originating PR device Remember: Traffic flows in the inverse direction to routing information.

  3. VRF Architecture – VPN Separation • Each customer interface is mapped into a VRF. • Holds routing and reachability information for the Customers VPN • Could hold a subset of the routes within a VPN as apposed to all the routes BGP with VPN extensions, is used to transfer routes and reachability information between VRF’s on different PR’s. • On export from a VRF the route is tagged with a BGP community which defines which VPN it belongs to, as well as the topology type (I.e. Full Mesh, Hub and Spoke, etc) • The VPN extensions carry a VPN label to ensure packets are routed through the correct VRF. WHIP MPLS CORE PR MPLS LSP VRF VRF VRF VRF PR PR

  4. FT FT FT FT • IP Packet with Destination address of 10.1.1.1 • Route lookup performed on 10.1.1.1 in RED VPN • Returns Label value of 75 • Next hop of PR-2 • Route lookup on PR-2 • Returns RSVP label of LSP to reach PR-2 • Packet transmitted with label stack of • RSVP Label ¦ 75 Site 1 Site 2(10/8) 3 1 1 2 3 2 Site 2 • Receives MPLS labelled packet with label of 75 • POPs Label • Sends to CPE-4 Site 1 MPLS/BGP IP-VPN 101 – MP-BGP -> VPN Label CPE-1 CPE-2 PR-1 PR-2 IBGP session CPE-3 CPE-4

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