Cisco Systems A9014CFD manual Configuring EoMPLS, Understanding EoMPLS, 15-1

C H A P T E R 15

Configuring EoMPLS

The Cisco ASR 901 router supports EoMPLS, a subset of AToM that uses a tunneling mechanism to carry Layer 2 Ethernet traffic. Ethernet Over MPLS (EoMPLS) encapsulates Ethernet frames in MPLS packets and forwards them across the MPLS network.

Contents

•Understanding EoMPLS, page 15-1

•Configuring EoMPLS, page 15-2

•EoMPLS Configuration Example, page 15-3

•Configuring Pseudowire Redundancy, page 15-4

•Port Based EoMPLS, page 15-5

Understanding EoMPLS

EoMPLS encapsulates ethernet frames in MPLS packets and forwards them across the MPLS network. Each frame is transported as a single packet, and the PE routers connected to the backbone add and remove labels as appropriate for packet encapsulation:

•The ingress PE router receives an Ethernet frame and encapsulates the packet by removing the preamble, the start of frame delimiter (SFD), and the frame check sequence (FCS). The rest of the packet header is not changed.

•The ingress PE router adds a point-to-point virtual connection (VC) label and a label switched path (LSP) tunnel label for normal MPLS routing through the MPLS backbone.

•The network core routers use the LSP tunnel label to move the packet through the MPLS backbone and do not distinguish Ethernet traffic from any other types of packets in the MPLS backbone.

•At the other end of the MPLS backbone, the egress PE router receives the packet and de-encapsulates the packet by removing the LSP tunnel label if one is present. The PE router also removes the VC label from the packet.

•The PE router updates the header, if necessary, and sends the packet out the appropriate interface to the destination switch.

The MPLS backbone uses the tunnel labels to transport the packet between the PE routers. The egress PE router uses the VC label to select the outgoing interface for the Ethernet packet. EoMPLS tunnels are unidirectional; for bidirectional EoMPLS, you need to configure one tunnel in each direction.

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