Information About The Extranet Mvpn Routing Topology - Cisco CRS Series Configuration Manual

Multicast VPN Extranet Routing
Extranet Components
Figure 6: Components of an Extranet MVPN
MVRF—Multicast VPN routing and forwarding (VRF) instance. An MVRF is a multicast-enabled VRF. A
VRF consists of an IP routing table, a derived forwarding table, a set of interfaces that use the forwarding
table, and a set of rules and routing protocols that determine what goes into the forwarding table. In general,
a VRF includes the routing information that defines a customer VPN site that is attached to a provider edge
(PE) router.
Source MVRF—An MVRF that can reach the source through a directly connected customer edge (CE) router.
Receiver MVRF—An MVRF to which receivers are connected through one or more CE devices.
Source PE—A PE router that has a multicast source behind a directly connected CE router.
Receiver PE—A PE router that has one or more interested receivers behind a directly connected CE router.

Information About the Extranet MVPN Routing Topology

In unicast routing of peer-to-peer VPNs, BGP routing protocol is used to advertise VPN IPv4 and IPv6
customer routes between provider edge (PE) routers. However, in an MVPN extranet peer-to-peer network,
PIM RPF is used to determine whether the RPF next hop is in the same or a different VRF and whether that
source VRF is local or remote to the PE.
Source MVRF on a Receiver PE Router
To provide extranet MVPN services to enterprise VPN customers by configuring a source MVRF on a receiver
PE router, you would complete the following procedure:
• On a receiver PE router that has one or more interested receivers in an extranet site behind a directly
connected CE router, configure an MVRF that has the same default MDT group as the site connected
to the multicast source.
• On the receiver PE router, configure the same unicast routing policy to import routes from the source
MVRF to the receiver MVRF.
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