Perhaps the Multi protocol
Is in regards to the fact that it can support multiple routing contexts
(one per vrf)
resg
Haakon Claassen
EMEA - IT Transport Services -WAN
Cisco Systems
De Kleetlaan 6b - Pegasus Park
B-1831 Diegem (Belgium)
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Subject: Re: MPLS Vs EIGRP [7:54507]
""Chuck's Long Road"" wrote in message
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> hey, friends, I'm always interested in learning something I didn't
know
> before. not claiming to know a whole lot about MPLS, but in terms of
> operation, MPLS operates on top of a routing protocol, any routing
protocol,
> correct? Requires that CEF is enabled, at least in the Cisco world,
but
any
> old routing protocol is fair game as the transport piece, correct?
>
> So to me, the question would become one of the relative merits of any
> routing protocol, without the MPLS issue clouding it. I would think,
but
> what do I know?
I got an even more fundamental question - why does MPLS require IP at
all?
At the risk of starting a religious way, it's not called Internet
Protocol
Label Switching, it's Multi-protocol label switching. MPLS has
effectively
become a feature of IP, as opposed to a generalized control-plane
mechanism
for which is what it was originally intended.
>
> I suppose there are always the issue of interoperability.
>
> I would certainly appreciate the wisdom of the folks on this group.
>
> Chuck
>
>
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> ""Kohli, Jaspreet"" wrote in message
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> > I am looking for a comparative design question: Why a large
corporation
> > should or should not use MPLS over EIGRP . Any useful links will
be
> > greatly appreciated .
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> >
> > Thanks as always
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