MPLS tomfoolery

So, today's quest was to get a client's site down in England up and runnning on their new MPLS backbone with resilient VPNs over ADSL and 3G.  A quest not exactly assisted by the complete lack of kit when I arrived.  Eventually the kit was tracked down and a somewhat truculent courier forced to return with it.

I'm not sure what it is, but for some reason telcos never seem to be able to get any sort of connection right first time.  This time there was a routing issue within the MPLS cloud which took me an age to confirm and get the telco to resolve.  Needless to say, by this point the client had decided to abort the switch over, so although the MPLS is working now, the site is still on the old connection .

Oh and a little tip - when you're turning up on site expecting to configure a 3G connection, make sure your client knows that they need a SIM card for the HWIC!  

The 3G resilience config has been quite interesting to develop, and I'll post sometime next week on how to implement it, once I've ironed out any bugs in my config :)