Re: IETF multihoming powder: just add IPv6 and stir

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>]

On söndag, maj 4, 2003, at 03:53 Europe/Stockholm, J. Noel Chiappa 
wrote:

> However, with a certain amount of cleverness, and also trading off 
> per-packet
> header overhead to reduce per-flow state in the switches, one can do an
> amazing amount.
>
> I don't want to bore everyone with a long explanation, and sorry, no 
> it's not
> written down, but very briefly, it all depends on having virtual links 
> in the
> topology map which correspond to instantiated aggregated flows (and
> recursively so). You can either do an end-end flow setup which uses 
> those
> virtual links (and the flow stack in the packet header), or you can 
> play all
> sorts of interesting tricks with the flow stack to cause packets to 
> take paths
> composed of those virtual links, or you can do a mixture of the two.
>
> I not sure if I have that problem Vadim identified with the full-blown
> flow-setup case completely licked, but I have some ideas which I think 
> will
> do it.
Don't get me wrong here, but on first read-through, isn't what you are 
describing MPLS?

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