C H A P T E R 16
MPLS VRF Management
This chapter describes the various MPLS VRF Management tasks that can be performed using the Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager application. This chapter is divided into the following main sections:
•Introduction to VRF Management
•VRF Management Workflows
•Launching the MPLS VRF Management Windows
•Creating VRF Objects in the EM
•Creating and Configuring the VRF Policy on a Device
•Associating a VRF Policy with an Interface
•VRF Fault Management
Introduction to VRF Management
VPN Routing and Forwarding (VRF) is an IOS route table instance for connecting a set of sites to a VPN service. A VRF contains a template of VPN Routing/Forwarding table in a PE router.
The overlapping addresses, usually resulting from usage of private IP addresses in customer networks, are one of the major obstacles to successful deployment of
Each VPN has its own routing and forwarding table in the router, so any customer or site that belongs to a VPN is provided access only to the set of routes contained within that table. Any PE router in the MPLS/VPN network therefore contains a number of
VRF Manager provides an encapsulation for the VRF template as EM Object Model for better manageability and user friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI).
Cisco 12000/10700 v3.1.1 Router Manager User Guide
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