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  • 1.  Route Distinguisher

    Posted 07-21-2021 02:03
    I have a question about route distinguishers (RD):

    When I should use the same RD ? and When I souldn't?.

    Thanks in advance.

    Luis

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    Luis Aljobin
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  • 2.  RE: Route Distinguisher

    Posted 07-21-2021 05:53
    Route distinguishers are used when you are running mpls vpn or evpn configurations.

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  • 3.  RE: Route Distinguisher

    Posted 07-23-2021 09:30
    Hello,

    Maybe You can mored detail about it. for example in the contect on vpn, is it the same?

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    LUIS ALJOBIN
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  • 4.  RE: Route Distinguisher

    Posted 07-24-2021 11:56
    The route distinguisher is just a label put on the route by the advertising router.  These are used to keep the bgp route tables organized. 

    This is an l2vpn example configuration.

    https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/vpn-l2/topics/example/vpn-layer2-configuring.html

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