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Figure 131   Hierarchical BGP/MPLS VPN
Introduction to OSPF 
Multi-instance
As one of the most popular IGP routing protocols, OSPF is used as an internal 
routing protocol in many VPNs. Using OSPF on PE-CE links brings convenience to 
you because in this case CE routers only need to support OSPF protocol, without 
the need of supporting other protocols, and network administrator only have to 
know the OSPF protocol. If you want to transform conventional OSPF backbone 
into BGP/MPLS VPN, using OSPF between PE and CE can simplify this transform 
process.
Therefore IETF raised two new OSPF VPN extension drafts, to provide a complete 
solution to SPPF problems in BGP/MPLS VPN application when OSPF is used as 
PE-CE routing protocol. In this case, PE router must be able to run multiple OSPF 
instances, each of which corresponds to one VPN instance, owns an individual 
interface, routing table, and sends VPN routing information over MPLS network 
using BGP/OSPF interaction.
If supporting OSPF multi-instance, one router can run multiple OSPF processes, 
which can be bound to different VPN instances. In practice, you can create one 
OSPF instance for each service type. OSPF multi-instance can fully isolate different 
services in transmission, which can solve security problems with low cost to meet 
the needs of customers. Generally, OSPF multi-instance is run on PEs; The CE 
running OSPF multi-instance in the LAN is called multi-VPN-instance CE. At 
present, isolation of LAN services implements by VLAN function of the switch. 
OSPF Multi-VPN-Instance CE provides schemes of services isolation implemented 
on routers.
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