It seems to be dependent on the type of summary. For example a summary which
is installed as null0 route should cause an aggregate label to exist. For
the rest I also only saw these kinds of labels within MPLS VPNs, sometimes
not even caused by summaries :-)
Try using BGP for example, doing a send-label and an aggregate-address. Try
if you see an aggregate label then.


-- 
Regards,

Rick Mur
CCIE2 #21946 (R&S / Service Provider)
Juniper JNCIA-ER & JNCIA-EX
MCSA:Messaging, MCSE
Sr. Support Engineer – IPexpert, Inc.
URL: http://www.IPexpert.com

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Bryan Bartik <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have read that when an "Aggregate" label shows up in the LFIB, the
> LSR must remove the label and do an IP lookup to determine how to
> forward the packet. The only scenario for which I can seem to create
> this is in an MPLS VPN. I have also read that when you perform route
> summarization, you may see an "Aggregate" label, however I cannot
> produce these results. (From MPLS Fundamentals, p131 "Aggregate labels
> can be the result of aggregation or summarization of IP prefixes in
> the network.")
>
> Here is the scenario I am testing:
>
> R3---R1---R2---R4---R5
>
> R2 is the ABR performing summarization for two loopbacks on R5
> (150.100.0.5/32, 150.100.1.5/32). Summary is 150.100.0.0/16.
>
> Notice that R2 still has both labels, there is no "Aggregate"...and it
> advertises an implicit null to R1.
>
> R2#sho mpls forwarding-table
> Local  Outgoing    Prefix            Bytes tag  Outgoing   Next Hop
> tag    tag or VC   or Tunnel Id      switched   interface
> 16     Pop tag     10.1.1.1/32       0          Se1/1      point2point
> 17     Pop tag     192.168.13.0/24   0          Se1/1      point2point
> 18     18          10.1.1.3/32       0          Se1/1      point2point
> 20     Pop tag     10.1.1.4/32       0          Se1/0      point2point
> 21     Pop tag     150.100.45.0/24   0          Se1/0      point2point
> 22     21          150.100.1.5/32    0          Se1/0      point2point
> 23     22          150.100.0.5/32    0          Se1/0      point2point
> 25     23          10.1.1.5/32       0          Se1/0      point2point
>
> R1#sho mpls forwarding-table
> Local  Outgoing    Prefix            Bytes tag  Outgoing   Next Hop
> tag    tag or VC   or Tunnel Id      switched   interface
> 16     Pop tag     192.168.24.0/24   0          Se1/0      point2point
> 17     Pop tag     10.1.1.2/32       0          Se1/0      point2point
> 18     Pop tag     10.1.1.3/32       0          Se1/1      point2point
> 19     Pop tag     150.100.0.0/16    0          Se1/0      point2point
> 20     20          10.1.1.4/32       0          Se1/0      point2point
> 25     25          10.1.1.5/32       0          Se1/0      point2point
>
> Now this seems all fine to me, R2 must do an IP lookup when it
> receives the unlabeled packets, and then it labels them before
> forwarding them.
>
> Why doesn't the output on R2 show "Aggregate"?
> Am I misunderstanding the use of "Aggregate"?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Bryan Bartik
> CCIE #23707 (R&S), CCNP
> Sr. Support Engineer - IPexpert, Inc.
> URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
>
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