Flow label configuration improves load balancing of PW traffic over an MPLS network, particularly in the context of PWs that transport high volumes of traffic that are comprised of multiple individual traffic flows (for example, the same source-destination pair for a Transport Control Protocol (TCP) connection is an individual traffic flow).
Perform the following task to configure flow label for a PW profile.
device# configure terminal
device(config)# pw-profile pw_example
device(config-pw-profile-pw_example)# flow-label
The following example shows how to configure a PW profile and enable flow label on the profile. It then shows how to attach the PW profile to a bridge domain.
device# device# configure terminal device(config)# pw-profile pw_example device(config-pw-pw_example)# vc-mode tag device(config-pw-pw_example)# mtu 1300 device(config-pw-pw_example)# mtu-enforce true device(config-pw-pw_example)# flow-label device(config-pw-pw_example)# exit device(config)# bridge-domain 5 device(config-bridge-domain-5)# pw-profile pw_example