Cisco WAN :: ASR1000 Will It Still Possible To Run VPLS Over Dark Fiber
Jul 7, 2012
One of our customer would like to connect 3 datacentres and decided to use VPLS to extend layer 2 VLANs . For this purpose they have bought six Cisco ASR1000 edge routers( two at each side).They also wanted to buy MPLS SP backbone but have decided to buy 2x10G dark fibre links instead.My question is,
1-Will it still possible to run VPLS over dark fibre? Because all the documents I read regarding VPLS are deployed over MPLS backbone.
2-Any sample configuration for implementation VPLS in ASR1000 ?
I have 3 Data centres which I am linking up via Single Mode Single Strand Fibre.The switches at each data centre are WS-C4948-E
-Distance between Data Centre 1 and Data Centre 2 is 60km single mode single strand -Distance between Data Centre 2 and Data Centre 3 is 70km single mode single strand
What type of SFP do I need to use in each Data Centre for the WS-C4948-E switches for these distances.
I have a 7206vxr with a NPE-G1 card in it. I am planning to add some PA-GE card with a ws-g5486 to light single mode Gigabit dark fibre.
it seems that users are experiencing throughput of around 200Mbps. Is this per card, or for the entire chasis? I have 6 free slots, if i were to fill 3 of them up with PA-GE card would i get 200Mbps on each card ?
I could do configuration of a VPLS in 3750, I have doubt about whether the configuration is similar to that of 7600, but is so I could recommend some document to observe the configuration.
I can't find any configuration info for any MPLS layer 2 extension features for the Nexus 7k devices, is this a strategic decision by Cisco to promote OTV?
My company is moving the datacenter to our new building on Saturday, however the users will remain at the old building until late next month so they bought a 100M Metro E VPLS circuit through their ISP. I went to test it today but could not ping the workstation from my laptop. I wanted to do some bandwidth testing with iperf but could never get to that point because ICMP connectivity wasn't even there. From what I understand, VPLS is just a layer 2 extension so they way I'm testing the circuit below SHOULD work, but it isn't. Spoke with the ISP and they tested the circuit end-to-end on their equipment which was fine so am I missing something?
We have 7606 with WS-SUP-32GE-3B. is it possible to configure VPLS using this settings or we need additional cards. as far as i have found googling is that either ES or SIP cards are required facing the core. But all are mentioned for SUPs other than WS-SUP-32-GE-3B.
I have implement MPLS L3VPN on my network to provide service to customer and right now we plan to have service VPLS on our same router. What is needed to run the VPLS in our MPLS network ? I heard that we need addictional switching module and upgrade my IOS to support it but I am not sure.
Does VPLS is supported on the Cisco ASR1001?With the feature navigator it looks like the ASR1001 is the only ASR1000 series router with VPLS support but I can't find any documentation confirming this.
I understood that service provider will use hardware Alcatel 6850 on the distribution/core and Zyxel 2108G on customer access level.query is that service provider says it's not VPLS which should work most probably through MPLS network of ISP.ISP noted that it would be direct 802.1q VLAN between two sites without any Layer3 on ISP side.
How to: - understand what kind of connection this will be? - is this connection is fine for customer? - identify if this kind of connection will be fine for converge network (voice+data) ? - what should I ask to ISP to clarify details?
Am trying to find out what is the suitable SPA for ASR1000 routers to connect ATM DS3 through the local telco. Currently this is connected to a NM-ATM-DS3 module on a C3845 router. The reason for asking is we need to upgrade the WAN router to ASR1000.
We have asr1006 with 2 esp-40 and 2 rp2 and 2 sip-40. we need to bridge vlan from portchannel (2*10) to single 10ge port.
So fn said that EVC on Port-Channel supported on our software and document [URL] have such example - configure terminal - interface port-channel channel-group - service instance id ethernet
But on our router we have not service command on port-channel. only on non portchannel interface.
But other document have Restrictions for Configuring EVCs on the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router The following features are not supported: EVC on Etherchannels
Connect ww port-channel 1 2 tenGigabitEthernet 0/1/0 2 this is possible command on our router (but i can't create service instance on portchannel interface)
We need to bridge l2 without l3 termination ? is this possible with port-channel ?
we're trying to integrate our SBC instances (CUBE SP on ASR1000) into our network management system (EMC SMARTS)Syslog messages from SBC instances are some kind of cumbersome with lot of line breaks resulting in multiple syslog messages the NMS must parse.How do I configure it to just put it all into one line just as "normal" log messages?
I have a question regarding netflow and NAT. I have read some documentation (on ASR1000) regarding monitoring NAT process on Cisco ASR1000 that can be done using netflow version 9 (the term was called netflow event logging a.k.a NEL). The problem is, I have not found the netflow collector that can do that. I have queried several software such as manage engine "Netflow Analyzer" and Lancope, but they said their software can not do that.
I'm trying to use EPC on ASR1001 running IOS-XE 3.4, and it won't work. Configuration commands are accepted by the router, but there are no packets in the capture buffer.In release notes for IOS-XE, in the 2.5 section, there is a statement that EPC is not supported on ASR1k. Is it true also for newer versions of IOS-XR?
how the ASR1000s are being setup.I am looking at ASR1000s as part of network refresh and was looking at RJ-45 based Gigabit Ethernet ports compatible with the ASR1000s SPA-5X1GE-V2 seems to be an option but they are all SFPs. Are there any options for RJ-45 ones on ASR1000s?
There is an option for the 2 port where one can mix and match SFPs and RJ45 but I was looking for something which is RJ45 only.Are there any options for them available.I know I could get something with FastEthernet type but was looking for the GigabitEthernet type.
I'm trying to find out what platforms support Multilink PPP with Link Fragmentation and Interleaving over a single link, when that single link is PPPoE. In searching the documentation, the best information I can find is that it seems to be supported in one direction on the ASR1000 url...Many platforms appear to support PPPoE and also MLPPP w/LFI, but it's not clear that both features are supported on the same link.
The application is a radio that has an Ethernet interface on its terrestrial link, and acts as an Ethernet bridge. Would like to use Multilink PPPoE with LFI in order to provide LFI in order to run VoIP over lower speed links (e.g 256kb). For what it's worth, the radio also supports RFC 5578 PPPoE Extensions for Credit Flow and Link Metrics. It was fairly easy to find what platforms support RFC 5578. But RFC 5578 would be used to support variation in the capacity of the link. If the link speed is fixed, RFC 5578 is not needed. I was trying to find if the set of platforms supported increase if the need for RFC 5578 is taken off the table.
In particular, I'd be interested in the whether the ASR 9000 series supports MLPPP bundles with LFI when the links are PPPoE.
We're installing ASR1000 series (ASR1001 and ASR1006) routers on a new WAN and have a requirement to enrypt the traffic between the EIGRP neighbors. Each ASR will be connected to the MOE with a gig interface and we will be using L3 on the interfaces with EIGRP as the routing protocol. We have advipservices-k9 IOS-XE
The ASR1006 is our datacenter WAN router and all remote sites have the ASR1001s. The ASR1006 WAN interface will be configured with L3 subinterfaces, one to each remote location, using a /30 mask.
What is the best method to encrypt the traffic between the ASR1006 WAN interface and the remote ASR1001 WAN interface?
Any equivalent show command to get the "FIB TCAM Usage" on An ASR 1006 ?the "show platform hardware capacity forwarding" does not work on ASR1006 Example on 6500: Router# show platform hardware capacity forwarding.
I want to know what the default behavior about the command 'mls qos trust dscp' under router platform interface. the router is ASR1000 series.we don't need to put above command line to trust dscp in case of router? otherwise, we have to add it as welll as like switch platform.
I am working on a network which has two ISP connections (Active/Active) terminating on router (ASR1000). From the LAN side (6500 switch) all the traffic need to be route on ISP1 but some of the specific subnets like 10.250.0.0/16 need to be route on ISP2 connection.
I am planning to use PBR and NAT with route maps. any documents or refrences are provided.
My carrier is dropping off a single mode fiber on LC connection 10gig port but on myrouter I am using XFP-10G-MM-SR modules. Can I still use a SMF to connect from handoff to this router or do I need a different module?
I am new to fiber connections. We are have a SM fiber comming into our data center. It will terminate with Single Mode SC Unicam connectors in the fiber panel. I want to connect these to a 3760 GB switch using Cisco GLC-SX-MM Gbics. I'm guessing all I need is a SC to LC fiber connection. My question is this; is there any issue going from Single mode to Multi-mode? Do I need an adapter or do I need to find SM GBICS? The distance between the patch panel and switch is only about 10 feet.
I need some fiber to run between a Cisco Nexus and an IBM server with Intel NIC. It's 30meters, and LC-LC connectors.What is the difference between 62.5/125 vs 50/125?
I am specking a SRW2008P-K9 switch for a customer. They are using MM 62.5 fiber. I need to know what Gig SFP will work for them. I am also quoting them a WS-C3750X-24P-S.
