Next Hop Resolution Protocol comes in two fashions on the IOS XR. The first is Cisco proprietary and called Hot-Standby Router Protocol or HSRP and the other is the industry standard called Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol or VRRP. This is something that many customers use in order to maintain the availability of a default gateway…
Ok, now it is time for some L2VPN. Here we will use the same diagram as before, but instead of providing MPLS VPN between CE1 and CE2, we are going to create a L2VPN so that CE1 and CE2 think that they are directly connected to each other. This lab builds off the previous post,…
BGP, this is where it starts to get different with IOS XR. First up, configuring an iBGP peering with R2’s 150.1.12.2 in AS1 and advertise our loopback interface. RP/0/7/CPU0:R1(config)# RP/0/7/CPU0:R1(config)#router bgp 1 Let’s define the network we want to advertise, under the address family: RP/0/7/CPU0:R1(config-bgp)#address-family ipv4 unicast RP/0/7/CPU0:R1(config-bgp-af)#net 1.1.1.1/32 RP/0/7/CPU0:R1(config-bgp-af)#exit Now, we can configure the…