Head End Build between MPLS and standard IP network

Question

Hi,
I'm a bit new to MPLS to please excuse my ignorance if I'm completely wrong here, but here goes.
We provide standard IP services to our customers. We have recently gone into an agreement with an MPLS wholesale provider, where they supply our customers with MPLS connections. We then supply IP services to these customers such as SMTP POP and Web browsing etc.
We have a pipe into the MPLS providers MPLS cloud that provides such connectivity. This circuit is terminated on a 7206VXR on our network.
Each customer has their own DLCI on this circuit with a /30 subnet. There is then a BGP session for each customer using the /30 from our Head End Router to the MPLS Provider's P router.
The MPLS provider announces the customers subnets that are connected to the MPLS cloud to our Head End Router using BGP.
My issue is that I want routes announced from each BGP session to be injected into their own, per customer VRF table so that the routes are kept seperate from other customers routes.
I've setup a lab to simulate the above, but cannot seem to get it to work.
I suppose my question is does the MPLS provider's P router that our Head End connects to have to announce the BGP routes to us using VRF also or can it just use standard BGP and I can use a route map to place routes announced from a specific BGP peer IP into a per Customer VRF table?
Is this actually possible?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

Hello,
you probably would need a config like this on the Head end router:
ip vrf Cust1
rd 65000:1
interface Vlan10
description Customer1
ip vrf forwarding Cust1
ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.252
router bgp 65000
address-family ipv4 vrf Cust1
neighbor 10.1.1.2 remote-as 60000
neighbor 10.1.1.2 description ISP PE for Customer1
Adjust the interface names, IP addresses, RD, RT, etc. for your environment.
This would insert the routes learned from the mpls Provider into your VRFs. The scenario, by the way, is described in RFC2547bis section 10a.
You could off course also place filters and other stuff into BGP for security reasons depending on your requirements.
Hope this helps! Please rate all posts.
Regards, Martin