|> Indeed. It has nothing to do with installing state in intermediate |> forwarders. | |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.
Bill, MPLS requires that you install state _per tunnel_ on intermediate forwarders. In other packet based tunnelling protocols, this is not necessary. Both MPLS and normal L3 protocols require routing state on intermediate forwarders. Tony -- 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
