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EIGRP MPLS VPN PE-CE SOO

I couldn’t resist using all of those acronyms.
EIGRP – Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
MPLS – Multiprotocol Label Switching
VPN – Virtual Private Networking
PE-CE – Provider Equipment – Customer Equipment
SOO – Site Of Origin

MPLS SOO
MPLS Fundamentals pp. 220-226

BGP->EIGRP and EIGRP->BGP

Advertisement of the SOO BGP extended community attribute is used to identify routes that have originated from a site so that they are not re-advertised back into the same site. Each SOO uniquely identifies the site and allows for the routes to be filtered. SOO filtering is configured at the interface level. It is commonly used when a site contains both VPN and back door links.

From the Cisco document:
The configuration of the SOO extended community allows MPLS VPN traffic to be filtered on a per-site basis. The SoO extended community is configured in an inbound BGP route map on the PE router and is applied to the interface with the ip vrf sitemap command. The SOO extended community can be applied to all exit points at the customer site for more specific filtering but must be configured on all interfaces of PE routers that provide VPN services to CE routers.

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  1. that1guy15
    May 31st, 2011 at 23:18 | #1

    Interesting. I have never heard of SOO but i guess this will be something i learn going through my MPLS test or CCIE.

    I would be interested to look through the context you pulled these quotes from.

    Thanks

  2. jud
    June 1st, 2011 at 07:03 | #2

    @that1guy15
    Oops. I was going to flesh out this post but I guess I published it rather than saved it as a draft. I was planning to compare this with OSPF sham links and BGP backdoors. I will probably edit this post further.