On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Scott Brim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excerpts from William Herrin at 08:22:03 -0400 on Thu 10 Jul 2008: >> 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.
Scott, I must be completely missing your point. That statement parses like nonsense to me. Of course both MPLS and layer-3 routing protocols both install state in intermediate forwarders. For MPLS, the state is the action to take on the top label (generally moving the packet in a particular direction). For a routing protocol like BGP, the state is the direction in which to move packets whose destination address falls within given prefixes. Regards, Bill -- William D. Herrin ................ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004 -- 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
