The drawback of confederations is that migration from a nonconfederation to a confederation design requires major reconfiguration of the routers and a major change in the logical topology. In addition, routing through a confederation might not take an optimal path without manually setting BGP policies. Figure 9-10 illustrates this issue. Figure 9-10. AS Confederation Internal and External Routing Confederation 100 is composed of three sub-ASs: 65010, 65020, and 65030...
CIDR is a convention defined in RFCs 1517 through 1520 that calls for aggregating routes for multiple classful network numbers into a single routing table entry. The primary goal of CIDR is to improve the scalability of Internet routers’ routing tables. Imagine the implications of an Internet router being burdened by carrying a route to every class A, B, and C network on the planet! CIDR uses both technical tools and administrative strategies to reduce the size of the Inter..
Sending Syslog Messages As SNMP Traps and Informs
You can configure the router to forward syslog messages to your network management server as SNMP traps instead of syslog packets with the following configuration commands: Router#configure terminal Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. Router(config)#logging history informational Router(config)#snmp-server enable traps syslog Router(config)#snmp-server host 172.25.1.1 ORATRAP syslog Router(config)#end Router# To forward syslog messages as SNMP ..
MPLS Traffic Engineering with Autoroute
This recipe uses Cisco's Autoroute feature for managing Traffic Engineering (TE) with OSPF in an MPLS network. For this method, we must explicitly define all of the traffic paths and associate them with Tunnels on the PE routers: Router-PE1#configure terminal Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. Router-PE1(config)#mpls traffic-eng tunnels Router-PE1(config)#interface Loopback0 Router-PE1(config-if)#ip address 10.0.0.2 255.255.255.255 Router..
Configuring a Basic MPLS P Router
For the P routers in the core of the MPLS network, the primary requirement is to enable CEF and turn on MPLS on each of the interfaces that will be forwarding MPLS tagged packets. In this example, we have also enabled OSPF as a dynamic routing protocol within the MPLS core: Router-P1#configure terminal Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. Router-P1(config)#ip cef Router-P1(config)#mpls ip Router-P1(config)#interface FastEthernet0/0 Router-P..
