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MPLS and VPN Architectures, Volume II
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MPLS and VPN Architectures, Volume II

by Jim Guichard, Ivan Pepelnjak, Jeff Apcar
June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
12h 29m
English
Cisco Press
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Introduction to Troubleshooting of MPLS-Based Solutions

Most MPLS-based solutions (with the notable exception of MPLS quality of service [QoS], which is not covered in this book) follow the same conceptual architecture: customer control plane operation, provider control plane operation, and data plane operation.

Customer Control Plane Operation

The following functions are performed by the customer control plane:

  • Customer routing information is exchanged between PE routers and CE routers.

  • Customer routing information is propagated between PE routers, most commonly with the help of Multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol (MP-BGP). MPLS labels are exchanged together with the customer routing information to facilitate the data forwarding with an MPLS ...

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