I was asked question about MPLS labels within a VRF. Well the question was ” when I type the command ‘show mpls ldp bindings vrf xxx‘ ” I don’t see any labels for my remote site prefixes.
In this case these labels aren’t assigned by LDP they are assigned by BGP.
The command he was looking for was “show ip bgp vpnv4 vrf xxx labels” I think a light went on in his head when i explained this to him!
If your still confused , imagine the LSP (unidirectional) R1 -> R4 is basically a virtual connection if you like , where R4 is the egress LSR for the packet. The packet will travel via R1 -> R2 -> R3 -> R4. The next hop actually is listed as R4 even though it has to pass through R2 and R3. Which by the way has it own labels to add on top of bottom of stack label for R4.
R1 pushes on the label 1234 for R4 and another label on top for R2 which is 22, next R2 removes its own label (22) and adds the label for R3 which is 33, R3 removes its own label (33) and forwards the packet with the label 1234 to R4. Bottom of stack bit is set to 1, R4 removes the label and forwards.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3107
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