> For the moment, if you're doing enterprise managed services (the highest > profit end of the "ISP" business, though a stretch for most WISPs), MPLS > is the only game in town. You do it on a router that has it, or on a > "switch" that has it. Enterprises use their own IP space (usually 10.x) > and thus service providers have to stay at a lower layer. And you can't > really do VoIP decently (full quality) without some kind of QoS-enabled > shim below IP. If you're outside of the scope of a Carrier Ethernet VC, > then you probably are using MPLS. > > There is MPLS for Linux, which presumably is what RouterOS uses, since > they don't make their own sources available and they'd probably have to > if they wrote it.... So I'm surprised that Vyatta hasn't bothered with > it. Cisco is way too expensive. RouterOS boxes on big Intel iron are > more capable, though RouterOS can be a bid dodgey at times (as can a lot > of other systems). > Fred,
Which feature complete/stable MPLS implementation for Linux do you know of? I haven't seen any and I'd be interested to check it out. -- Simon Westlake Powercode.com (920) 351-1010 _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
