Thanks All.
Must say i find it not that confusing yet (well, i still follow let's put it 
that way), it's just so many facets to keep track of that bothers me when 
setting it up mostly! 
I phrased my question wrong actually, i meant what Marko put in his answer, 
that MP-BGP is (and setting up vpnv4 address families) always configured when 
setting up MPLS L3 VPN's.

It's pretty cool stuff for sure
Alef
On Jun 27, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Di Bias, Steve wrote:

> MPBGP is not specifically linked to MPLS, there are others to. You can do 
> CLNS, vpnv4 (unicast), ipv4 (unicast (the default), multicast, vrf), ipv6 
> (multicast, unicast), etc. 
> 
> Check out RFC2858 for more info 
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2858.txt 
> 
> The whole MPBGP thingy can get confusing but the VPNv4 routes are really just 
> IPv4 routes with an RD prepended, this is from Cisco:
> 
> "VPNv4 routes are the same as IPv4 routes, but VPNv4 routes have a 
> route descriptor (RD) prepended that allows replication of prefixes"
> 
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/iproute_bgp/configuration/guide/irg_overview_ps6441_TSD_Products_Configuration_Guide_Chapter.html#wp1054259
>  
> 
> Check out the DocCD for more info:
> 
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/iproute_bgp/configuration/guide/irg_basic_net.html
>  
> 
> HTH
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Steve Di Bias
> Network Engineer - Information Systems
> Valley Health System - Las Vegas
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [OSL | CCIE_RS] vpnv4 address families
> 
> Question;
> 
> Do you always setup vpnv4 address family when configuring MP-bgp, no matter 
> the protocol running over it ? and is MP-bgp explicitly linked to MPLS ?
> it all seems to mesh with one another, i.e. we almost always seem to use mpls 
> vpn's in conjunction with mp-bgp.
> 
> in the previous labs i was doing it seemed as the vpnv4 'carried' the VRF 
> information.
> 
> rgds,
> Alef
> 
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