E-series MPLS Configuration Basics

Juniper MPLS Configuration Basics Course Overview

This course provides technical network professionals with the skills they need to successfully install, configure, and troubleshoot the E-series router in a basic MPLS network. The course covers the fundamentals of MPLS, MPLS traffic engineering, and MPLS VPNs. Students learn about LDP, CR-LDP, and RSVP-TE as well as MPLS internetworking with IS-IS, OSPF, and BGP. The course consists of over 50% hands-on exercises.

Objectives

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the basic MPLS label-switching model.
• Configure MPLS tunnels.
• Configure MPLS tunnel advertisement to an IGP.
• Describe the establishment of MPLS LSPs for traffic engineering.
• Configure the E-series router for MPLS explicitly routed tunnels.
• Configure MPLS traffic engineered tunnels.
• Define the terms P router, PE router, and CE router.
• Configure the E-series router to support VPNs over MPLS label-switched paths.
• Configure VRFs.
• Configure address family-based BGP advertisements.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for network professionals responsible for the integration, configuration, and management of E-series MPLS router networks.

Course Level

This is an advanced-level course.

Prerequisites

The prerequisites for the E-series MPLS Configuration Basics class are the following:

• The Introduction to Juniper Networks Routers-E-series class
• The E-series Routing Protocols class

Course Contents

Day 1

Module 0: Introduction and Overview

Module 1: Multiprotocol Label Switching Overview

• MPLS Origin and Terminology
• Overlay Model versus MPLS
• MPLS Encapsulation Strategies and MPLS Switching
• MPLS Performance and Services
• MPLS LSPs

Module 2: Best-Effort Hop-by-Hop LSPs

• Building Label-Switched Paths using RSVP-TE
• Basic MPLS Configuration
• MPLS Interaction with IGPs
• Lab 1: Configuring MPLS Paths
• Lab 2: Configuring Best-Effort, Hop-by-Hop LSPs

Day 2

Module 3: Topology-Driven Label-Switched Paths

• Building Label-Switched Paths using LDP
• Downstream Unsolicited Configuration
• MPLS LDP over RSVP-TE
• Lab 3: MPLS Downstream Unsolicited LSPs

Module 4: BGP/MPLS VPNs

• Overview of BGP/MPLS VPNs
• MPLS/VPN Stacked Tunnel Setup and Forwarding Example
• BGP4 Multiprotocol Extensions
• Configuring BGP/MPLS VPNs
• VPN Configuration Options
• Lab 4: BGP/MPLS Virtual Private Networks

Day 3

Module 5: Multiprotocol Label Switching Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks

• MPLS Layer 2 VPN Theory and Operation
• Configuring MPLS Layer 2 VPNs
• Lab 5: Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks

Module 6: Multiprotocol Label Switching Traffic Engineering

• Overview of Traffic Engineering
• Traffic Engineering Signaling
• Reoptimization and Route Pinning
• Configuration Options
• Fast Reroute Protection
• MPLS in a DiffServ Domain
• Lab 6: MPLS Traffic Engineering Explicit Path