•2547
is widely used by many national service providers to create overlay
networks to different customers. Many run ip on edge, mpls in core.
•Should
mention Cisco routers might have similar VRF capability. Don’t know, can’t speak to that.
•Yet
gigapops don’t usually have overlay networks, and people usually
find workarounds to fish problems.
•But in
this case we ran into a show-stopper that caused us to really need to
deploy them.