MPLS on 2500 or lower end CE models?

[leivaae]

Hi everyone,

Just wondering if any lower end Cisco models including the 2500 series or lower models are capable of running MPLS as customer edge (CE) devices. A quick search on CCO for IOS releases that support MPLS fails to list anything lower than 2600 Series.

Tia,

Angel

[thisisshanky]

MPLS Is not supported on low end platforms.

[nshahrin]

Hi Angel,

2500 should be Ok to become a CE. no mpls config required at the CE, just normal routing ie wan/lan ip and default route.

--mdshah

[richardwatson]

I believe the 2650 can run very limited MPLS however you should consider "VRF lite" if all you need is to run a CE router with multiple routing tables. I think VRF lite is available on most CE routers from 1700 series up...

[eso]

http://cell-relay.indiana.edu/mhonarc/mplsrc/2002-Sep/msg00109.html

Re: MPLS support on 2500 ?!

From: Robert Raszuk <raszuk@cisco.com>

Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 22:47:31 +0200

CC: Mark Lewis <markl11_uk@yahoo.co.uk>, mpls-ops@mplsrc.com

Organization: Signature: http://www.employees.org/~raszuk/sig/

Resent-Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:53:33 -0400

To: fraanro <fraanro@arrakis.es>

Ok let me clarify a bit ...

2500 does not support MPLS simply because 2500 business unit decided so.

For lab trials, education etc ... Almost a year back Oct 20 2001 I have

compiled totally unsupported image which can be used on 2500 to run MPLS

and even some MPLS based applications (L3VPNs, TE etc ...) The location

is: ftp://ftp-eng.cisco.com/rraszuk/specials/ name: *20oct2001

Feell free to play with it but don't call tac or complain when something

is not working !

R.