Re: Well off the original thread topic... draft-bonica-tunneltrace-02

[George Swallow <swallow@cisco.com>]

> >  > 2)  MPLS VPN (RFC2547).  I won't go into the pros and cons of
> >  > this right
> >  > now ;-)
> > 
> > Current implementation is MPLS but I don't think there is a sustainable 
> > dependency there...LDP permits the undelying MPLS network to behave like 
> > an IP network. Seems to me they should be interchangable.
> 
> 
> they are - the above issues notwithstanding.

Which is a very good argument at to why IP based OAM tools are a good
idea.  Maybe even a *requirement*.

...George

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