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RE: VRF/MPLS on Linux
From: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan () atlasnetworks us>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:12:32 +0000
Jared, Thank you for your reply. The one issue I have is how can I label traffic to match a given table (i.e. ping VRF or snmp VRF). I don't see any way this can be done with normal BSD sockets, finding a way to get my application to 'color' the traffic has been a little evasive. The developers I am working with are using Mule for their data collection. I would really prefer to add an MPLS tag to mark the traffic, but I will investigate what I can do using the Linux routing features and 802.1q tags.
I don't know about Mule, but Zabbix has the concept of premise-based proxy servers which work around this issue, and it works quite well. Perhaps this issue can be solved at the application layer with some similar proxying methodology, rather than making this a very complicated routing issue?
Current thread:
- VRF/MPLS on Linux nanog (Aug 23)
- Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux Jared Mauch (Aug 23)
- Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux Denys Fedoryshchenko (Aug 23)
- Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux Brian Raaen (Aug 23)
- RE: VRF/MPLS on Linux Nathan Eisenberg (Aug 23)
- Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux Sergey V . Lobanov (Aug 23)
- Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux Dan White (Aug 23)
- Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux Mike Jones (Aug 23)
- Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux Glen Turner (Aug 23)
- Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux Brian Raaen (Aug 24)
- Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux Hannes Frederic Sowa (Aug 24)
- Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux Simon Perreault (Aug 24)
- Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux Jussi Peltola (Aug 24)
- Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux Simon Perreault (Aug 24)
- Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux Hannes Frederic Sowa (Aug 24)
- Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux Brian Raaen (Aug 24)
- Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux Jared Mauch (Aug 23)