Patent ID: 7804839

Claim:
A method comprising: configuring a first customer edge (CE) router to run external border gateway protocol (EBGP) to exchange routing information with a first provider edge (PE) router that is in a first multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network; setting the first CE router and a second CE router as enhanced interior gateway route protocol (EIGRP) peers; configuring the first CE router to run an EIGRP to exchange routing information with the second CE router; configuring the first CE router to perform auto-summarization of routes; configuring the second CE router to run the EIGRP to exchange routing information with the first CE router; creating, at the first CE router, quality-of-service (QoS) egress policies that convert a packet arriving at the first CE router and bearing indications of a first type of QoS to a packet bearing indications of a second type of QoS; configuring the second CE router to run the EBGP to exchange routing information with a second PE router in a second MPLS network; and exchanging routing information between the first CE router and the second CE router in accordance with EIGRP.