Re: Ciscos, BGP, L2TPV3 pseudowires and loopback IPs

[Dave Temkin <davet1 () gmail com>]

David Freedman wrote:
> e.
>   
> > We will need to set up a L2TPV3 tunnel to their old location (single
> > homed, no BGP on that side).  Upon initial reading of Cisco docs to do
> > this, we will need a routable IP on a loopback interface for starters.
> >     
>
> I'm pretty sure this is just a recommendation based on good practise
> (routeability to endpoints), I'm sure since you are not multihomed you
> can just use "ip local interface WAN1" and be done with it, I seem to
> remember doing something similar in an l2tpv3 pw class and it working.
>
>
>
>   
> > Using one from the /24 LAN is out unless we subnet it, which we don't
> > want to do.
> >
> > So the question is, can I just "move" the PTP IP address x.x.129.174
> > from the WAN interface to the loopback like this?
> >
> >  interface Loopback0
> >   ip address x.x.129.174 255.255.255.252  (that's the mask we're using on
> >             the WAN- Cisco's loopback examples show .255)
> >
> >  interface WAN1 (actually a gigether)
> >   ip unnumbered loopback0  (or no ip addr?)
> >
> >  neighbor x.x.128.173 update-source Loopback0
> >     
>
> No, if you were to do this you should get a new transfer network, you
> can't have the same address on two interfaces (and in fact, you should
> really be stealing an address from your internal /24 which doesn't
> require any re-subnetting (if you are happy for this address to be
> unreachable) and it should have a /32 mask...
>
>   
That's not correct.

From a VZ IP circuit that I have:

interface Loopback0
ip address x.x.x.x 255.255.255.255  (actual assigned mask is 
255.255.255.252)

interface Serial0/0/0
bandwidth 1536
ip unnumbered Loopback0

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 Serial0/0/0



Works great for me across ~50 sites.


-Dave