[143929] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: VRF/MPLS on Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Eisenberg)
Tue Aug 23 11:13:43 2011
From: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:12:32 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20110823144320.GA18213@brian>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Jared,
> Thank you for your reply. The one issue I have is how can I label
> traffic to match a given table (i.e. ping VRF or snmp VRF). I don't
> see any way this can be done with normal BSD sockets, finding a way to
> get my application to 'color' the traffic has been a little evasive.
> The developers I am working with are using Mule for their data
> collection. I would really prefer to add an MPLS tag to mark the
> traffic, but I will investigate what I can do using the Linux routing
> features and 802.1q tags.
=20
I don't know about Mule, but Zabbix has the concept of premise-based proxy =
servers which work around this issue, and it works quite well. =20
Perhaps this issue can be solved at the application layer with some similar=
proxying methodology, rather than making this a very complicated routing i=
ssue?
