What I heard from Cisco is that there may be some issue with MLPPP and MPLS - maybe QoS? -. The issue is for general IOS support issue for MLPPP/MPLS combination. For that reason, Cisco recommended Multi-link Frame Relay(MLFR) to overcome that issue.
Hyun Jon R. Kibler wrote: > Greetings all, > > Would anyone who has every done MLPPP over MPLS care to share their > experiences with this type of network? > > We have a customer that is implementing an MPLS network that will have 2 to 6 > T1 feeds at some locations that will be using MLPPP for channel bonding. This > is a telco provided network that will be customer managed. > > The routers will be customer managed because the same equipment will have > interfaces to another telco's network as a backup to the MPLS network. > Needless to say, no telco will support equipment that interfaces competitors > networks. > > The customer is being told by their router vendor that an MLPPP/MPLS network > is 'too complex' to be managed by anyone except for the router vendor's VARs > or the telco. They indicated that it would be impossible for the customer's > router vendor certified network person to come up to speed on MLPPP/MPLS > configurations and manage such a network -- that it takes years to adequately > learn how to manage that type of network configuration. > > This doesn't sound like rocket science to me -- it should be simple and > rather straight forward, I would think: The telco specifies its requirements > for the router configuration, the customer implements that configuration on > the required router interfaces, the telco monitors line quality, and the > customer does basic router monitoring. Am I missing something here, or is the > router vendor just blowing a lot of smoke to try to provide business for some > of his clients that provide managed services? > > Thanks in advance for your feedback! > > Jon Kibler >
