GRE Tunnels and MPLS

Thu Nov 4 20:49:55 UTC 2010

Do you have recir enabled ? If not, good one to enable and check for 
status of issue.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/mpls/command/reference/mp_m1.html#wp1012208

"If you do not enable tunnel-MPLS recirculation, the IPv4 and 
IPv4-tunneled packets that need to be labeled (for example, the packets 
that are encapsulated with an MPLS header) will be corrupted when they 
are transmitted from the Cisco 7600 series router."

Shimol

On 11/4/10 4:00 PM, Rettke, Brian wrote:
> Beginning work on our implementation of MPLS for the backbone network. I've run into difficulty with our GRE tunnels. The GRE Tunnel sits on our co-lo router (a Cisco 7600), and it uses a route-map to push our 10.x modem traffic to our DHCP servers. This is because the backbone is not complete and DHCP traffic needs to traverse the internet. What I have found is that when I enable basic MPLS on the co-location interfaces that head back to the individual systems, DHCP traffic still works, but ICMP and other 10.x traffic dies. There is also an intermittent problem with DHCP when it is enabled, where not all DISCOVERS are answered. I've tried everything I can think of, including adjusting MTU and TCP MSS. It only seems to impact when the co-location router has a GRE tunnel on one buffer, which it terminates, and then it has to encapsulate traffic with an MPLS tag before sending out of the other buffer. Theoretically, it should work, but I can't figure out if there is some prob
lem with MPLS' interaction with the tunnel. Has anyone encountered something similar?
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> Sincerely,
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> Brian A . Rettke
> RHCT, CCDP, CCNP, CCIP
> Network Engineer, CableONE Internet Services
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