29 July, 2013

EIGRP over MPLS: Layer 2 VPN

Figure 2-5 shows the network topology for the configuration that follows, which shows how to configure EIGRP over MPLS (EoMPLS).

NOTE: In this example, it is assumed that the MPLS network is configured with transparent Layer 2 transport and only the EIGRP configuration is observed here.

NOTE: When deploying EIGRP over MPLS, no changes are needed to the basic EIGRP configuration from the customer perspective.

NOTE: From the EIGRP perspective, the MPLS backbone and routers PE1 and PE2 are not visible. A neighbor relationship is established directly between routers R1 and R2; this is verified with the show ip eigrp neighbors command output.