Re: [Re: [mpls-linux-general] mpls-linux-0.990 setup problems]

[James R. L. <jl...@mi...>]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:59:00AM -0600, jk swamy wrote:
> Hi James,
> I did configure two nodes according to README.example. To check whether
> the MPLS label switching works or not. I used ping A from node B. To my
> surprise what ever may be the incoming and outgoing label the node is
> discovered. That means after the label is addeded to IP packets at node A,
> node B decodes it and respondes to it immaterial of Label (
> incoming/outgoing).
> 
> May I request U to give me the methodology by which I can confirm that MPLSadm
> setup configuration is working ( as per README.example ).

Turn on MPLS kernel debugging:

mplsadm -d

This command toggles (once turns on, the next time it turn off) MPLS
kernel debugging.  You may need to run:

dmesg

To see the output.

You will want to upgrade to 0.993 if you plan of doing and TCP streams over
the LSPs.

Jim

> Can anybody help me out if they worked on mpls-linux-0.990 by responding to
> this mail. My main purpose is to demonstrate the mpls labeling.
> 
> thankx
> --jkswamy
> 
> "James R. Leu" <jl...@mi...> wrote:
> Are you trying to do ingress filtering based on bandwidth or are you
> just tring to do a basic ingress LER <-> LSR <-> egress LER?
> 
> If you tring to ingress filter based on bandwidth then README.ingress
> is the correct place to start.  If your just trying to build a simple
> LER/LSR/LER example utils/README.example is the one you want to look at.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 10:49:53AM -0600, jk swamy wrote:
> > hi all,
> > I have downloaded mpls on linux ( mpls-linux-0.990 ) from
> > www.sourceforge.net.
> > I have configured the mpls setup as given in README.ingress file.
> > What I did is configured 2 tcp nodes , 2 LERs and 1 LSR. I used two
> ethernet
> > cards on each of LSR and LER.
> > My linux kernel 2.4.3 also detects all these ethernet cards.
> > 
> > My problem is that when I run the script on each of this nodes according to
> > README.ingress file running some application like PING or ftp to the end
> node
> > Host B it gives an error message that 
> > " Destination address unreachable"from (LER A ip node ).
> > 
> > I hope if any of U tried this package can help me accordingly.
> > My requirement is to demonstrate MPLS label switching with a small setup
> > if any of U have alternate solutions let me know.
> 
> I haven't tried ingress filtering in a long time.  Could one of the original
> users of it verify that it still works?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
> -- 
> James R. Leu
> 
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