VRF/MPLS on Linux

Tue Aug 23 15:12:32 UTC 2011

> 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.

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.  

Perhaps this issue can be solved at the application layer with some similar proxying methodology, rather than making this a very complicated routing issue?