RE: Formulating an MPLS Opening Moves Strategy

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From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Marko Milivojevic
Sent: 29-Sep-10 11:35
To: Andrew Bruce Caslow
Cc: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Formulating an MPLS Opening Moves Strategy

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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 14:56, Andrew Bruce Caslow
<abcaslow_at_netmasterclass.net> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
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> I hope those that attended yesterday's free MPLS webinar enjoyed it. I plan
> to have a follow up MPLS webinar on configuring MPLS sham-links next
> Tuesday, October 5th at 12 noon GMT-5.
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> I have also had requests for Webinars for the following topics:
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> Multicasting - Sparse Mode
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> Router QoS
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> Catalyst QoS
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> PPP Authentication and Encryption
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> EEM
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> All of these topics are very interesting topics and lots of fun to learn!!!
> Especially when we use our "proof by IOS" and "proof by debug" approach.
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> Please contact the NMC sales person Rauf Rasulov if you want to attend any
> on-line seminars on these topics. B We at NMC are very excited about our Live
> On-Line Group Mentoring service. Delivering training and mentoring services
> on-line is so very powerful. We are more than willing to provide lots and
> lots of free live training samples for the CCIE community.
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> Yesterday, we discussed implementing a baseline MPLS Layer 3 VPN
> configuration. B We called this formulating a set of "opening moves" for
> implementing a baseline MPLS Layer 3 VPN configuration. This is a very hot
> discussion right now among the NMC Live On-line Group Mentoring student
> community. B At the end of this e-mail B are some "rough edit" notes from
> yesterday's webinar. These notes are also a loose culmination of notes
> collected from the NMC CCIE Mentoring community.
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> Please feel free to add to them in any way you'd like. Also, please let
> comment on whether you think it is useful to have a set of "opening moves"
> for configuring a specific technology or troubleshooting a specific
> technology. B There is an old quote from the famous ancient Chinese writer
> Sun Tzu and the his classic "The Art of War" - the general Sun Tzu quote is
> "Wars are won or lost before they are fought". Among many other things, Sun
> Tzu is making a reference to how well prepared a given army is to fight a
> specific war. We like to extrapolate from this Sun Tzu quote the following
> CCIE lab preparation principle, "CCIE labs are passed or failed before they
> are attempted", or perhaps more specifically, "OSPF points are gained or
> lost before they are attempted", or "MPLS points are gained or lost before
> they are attempted", etc. B The point I am trying to make is: One needs to
> develop a structure to approach a CCIE level problem; developing a set of
> "opening moves" can be a useful starting point for formulating such a
> structure.
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> Again, here are some notes for forming a set of opening moves for either
> troubleshooting or configuring a baseline MPLS Layer3 VPN implementation.
> Actually, the following checklist is more oriented towards troubleshooting a
> baseline MPLS Layer3 VPN implementation. Please note these notes are
> "roughly edited". I hope they can act as a starting point for any of you
> that are beginning to learn about MPLS.
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> Once again, please let me know if you want to attend a free Webinar or any
> of the topics listed above. Or let me know if there are any other topics
> you'd like to cover in an on-line webinar.
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> Thanks!
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> All the best,
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> -Bruce
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> Andrew Bruce Caslow, CCIE #3139
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> +1 703 606 7353
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> NetMasterClass, LLC
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> Some suggested opening moves for troubleshooting B and configuring a baseline
> MPLS Layer 3 VPN:
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> Some Suggested Opening Moves for Troubleshooting MPLS
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> Start at the PE routers:
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> ***Check both ends of a PE connection from a VRF perspective:
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> 1). Check to make sure the associated VRF's are using the same RD
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> 2). Check to make sure the route-target import and export statements
> complement each other.
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> 3). Check to make sure vrf forwarding is enabled on the correct interfaces
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> 4). Are all applications of the VRF name applied in a consistent
> case-sensitive manner.
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> Verify with:
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> Show ip vrf
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> ***Check both ends of a PE connection from a m-BGP perspective:
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> 1). Check to make sure the BGP update-source is reachable via the global
> routing table and is not in a VRF
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> 2). Check the usual BGP issues: the neighbor remote-as statements complement
> each other.
>
> 3). Check to make sure the ipv4 unicast address-family is either activated
> or deactivated. If it is de-activated and the vpnv4 address-family is
> activated, it will cause many BGP error B messages to be generated until the
> remote end has the vpnv4 address-family activated.
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> Verify with:
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> Sh bgp vpn unicast all summ
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> ***Check the baseline MPLS switching configuration on the edge PE routers as
> well as on the internal MPLS switching devices
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> 1). Is MPLS activiated on all of the interfaces in the MPLS path
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> 2). Is the LDP router-id pingable?
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> 3). Is the LDP router-id associated with an IP address in a VRF? If it is,
> select another IP address.
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> 4). Is the next-hop of the vpnv4 path advertised with its original mask If
> it is being advertised via OSPF and the loopback is generating a host route
> due to the OSPF loopback network B type, change the OSPF network type or
> change the loopback mask-length to /32.
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> Verify with:
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> Sh mpls ldp neigh
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> Show mpls forwarding
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> ***Now, Check the PE to CE Connections and Configurations
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> Verify with:
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> Show ip route vrf XXX on the PE router
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> Under the most basic configurations, these routes will be listed as BGP
> routes. They will be redistributed
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> Into the VRF IGP's on the PE router. While the routes will reside in the PE
> router as BGP routes, they
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> Should also appear in the IGP database and/or topology tables such as "show
> ip ospf database" or "show ip
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> Eigrp topology". B See the next step for more details:
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> **Check the Redistribution Statements between the edge routing protocols and
> the mp-BGP peer on the PE.
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> Check to make sure the edge routes are being learned over the mp-BGP
> connection.
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> Verify with:
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> Sh bgp vpn unicast all
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> Sh bgp vpn unicast all x.x.x.x
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> **Finally, check the edge CE routers to make sure they have received the
> routes:
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> This involves standard non-VRF router show commands such as:
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> Sh ip ospf neigh
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> Sh ip ospf database
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> Sh ip ro
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> Sh ip eigrp neighbor
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> Sh ip eigrp topology
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> Sh ip route
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> **Some Good Multi-Purpose MPLS Verification and Testing Tools
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> Clear mpls counters
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> Debug mpls packet - Look for both packets being transmitted and received on
> each transit interface.
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> Debug bgp vpn unicast all updates
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> Trace vrf
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> Ping vrf
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> Sh ip ro vrf
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> Using Debug IP Packet to troubleshoot MPLS:
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> When you see the following debug ip packet output:
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> *Sep 21 17:58:47.883: IP: s=2.2.2.2 (local), d=3.3.3.3 (Serial0/0/0), len
> 76, sending
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> *Sep 21 17:58:47.883: IP: s=2.2.2.2 (local), d=3.3.3.3 (Serial0/0/0), len
> 76, MPLS encapsulation failed
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> Please, note that this is a "work in progress" by the NMC CCIE mentoring
> community. We hope you find this useful. Please free to add whatever
> comments you have. Thanks!
>
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