Excerpts from William Herrin at 08:22:03 -0400 on Thu 10 Jul 2008: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Scott Brim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > Scott, > > Distribution of the routes to the decapsulation nodes is a setup phase > radically different in the overview than distribution of an MPLS > label?
Indeed. It has nothing to do with installing state in intermediate forwarders. -- 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
