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Cisco ME 3800X and 3600X Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 34 Configuring MPLS, MPLS VPN, MPLS OAM, and EoMPLS
Understanding EoMPLS
Enter the no form of each command to delete the tunnel or disable the feature or capability. To remove
all primary auto tunnels, enter the clear mpls traffic-eng auto-tunnel primary privileged EXEC
command.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to establish MPLS backup auto tunnels:
Enter the no form of each command to delete the tunnel or disable the feature or capability.
Understanding EoMPLS
Any Transport over MPLS (AToM) is a solution for transporting Layer 2 packets over an MPLS network,
allowing service providers to use the MPLS network to provide connectivity between customer sites with
existing Layer 2 networks. Instead of separate networks with network management environments,
service providers can use the MPLS network to transport all types of traffic for different customers. The
switch supports EoMPLS, a subset of AToM that uses a tunneling mechanism to carry Layer 2 Ethernet
traffic.
EoMPLS encapsulates Ethernet frames in MPLS packets and forwards them across the MPLS network.
Each frame is sent as a single packet, and the provider-edge (PE) routers connected to the backbone add
and remove labels as appropriate for packet encapsulation:
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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.
Command
Purpose
Step 1
configure terminal
Enter global configuration mode.
Step 2
mpls traffic-eng auto-tunnel backup
Configure the switch to automatically create next-hop (NHOP) and
next-next hop (NNHOP) backup tunnels.
Step 3
mpls traffic-eng auto-tunnel backup
nhop-only
Configure the switch to automatically build only next-hop (NHOP)
backup tunnels.
Step 4
mpls traffic-eng auto-tunnel backup
tunnel-num [min num] [max num]
Configure the range of tunnel interface numbers for backup
autotunnels.
Step 5
mpls traffic-eng auto-tunnel backup timers
removal unused sec
Configure how frequently (in seconds) a timer scans the backup
autotunnels and removes tunnels that are not being used. Valid values
are 0 to 604800. The default is every 3600 seconds (60 minutes).
Step 6
mpls traffic-eng auto-tunnel backup config
unnumbered interface interface-id
Enable IP processing without an explicit address.
interface interface-id is the interface on which IP processing will be
enabled without an explicit address. The default interface is
Loopback0.
Step 7
mpls traffic-eng auto-tunnel primary
config mpls ip
Enable Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) on primary autotunnels.
Step 8
end
Return to privileged EXEC mode.
Step 9
show interface tunnel tunnel-num
Verify the configuration.
Step 10
copy running-config startup-config
(Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.