Chapter 1 About Cisco IP Solution Center
About MPLS VPNs
ISC chooses route target values by default, but you can override the automatically assigned RT values if necessary when you first define a CERC in the ISC software (see the “Defining CE Routing Communities” section on page
Route Target Communities
The mechanism by which MPLS VPN controls distribution of VPN routing information is through the VPN
•When a VPN route is injected into
•An import list of
For example, if the import list for a particular VRF is {A, B, C}, then any VPN route that carries community value A, B, or C is imported into the VRF.
CE Routing Communities
A VPN can be organized into subsets called CE routing communities, or CERCs. A CERC describes how the CEs in a VPN communicate with each other. Thus, CERCs describe the logical topology of the VPN. ISC can be employed to form a variety of VPN topologies between CEs by building hub and spoke or full mesh CE routing communities. CERCs are building blocks that allow you to form complex VPN topologies and CE connectivity.
The most common types of VPNs are
•A
•A full mesh CERC is one in which every CE connects to every other CE.
These two basic types of
Whenever you create a VPN, the ISC software creates one default CERC for you. This means that until you need advanced customer layout methods, you will not need to define new CERCs. Up to that point, you can think of a CERC as standing for the VPN
To build very complex topologies, it is necessary to break down the required connectivity between CEs into groups, where each group is either fully meshed, or has a hub and spoke pattern. (Note that a CE can be in more than one group at a time, so long as each group has one of the two basic patterns.) Each subgroup in the VPN needs its own CERC. Any CE that is only in one group just joins the corresponding CERC (as a spoke if necessary). If a CE is in more than one group, then you can use the Advanced Setup choice during provisioning to add the CE to all the relevant groups in one service request. Given this information, the provisioning software does the rest, assigning route target values and VRF tables to arrange exactly the connectivity the customer requires. You can use the Topology tool to
Cisco IP Solution Center, 3.0: MPLS VPN Management User Guide, 3.0
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