On 7/3/08 7:00 PM, William Herrin allegedly wrote:
As for MPLS, who wants to argue that MPLS -is-not- a map-encap protocol? Not me.
There are some noticeable differences, mainly that the (current) map-and-encap schemes use IP routing and forwarding as they are today. There is no setup phase for encapsulating a packet, and a core forwarder does not discriminate between an encapsulated packet and a non-encapsulated packet. With MPLS, forwarding depends on pre-establishment of a path. Labels have no topological significance and are not forwardable until the per-label forwarding behavior is installed in the nodes along a path. They don't aggregate. -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
