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Re: [RRG] Long term clean-slate only for the RRG?



Excerpts from William Herrin at 08:22:03 -0400 on Thu 10 Jul 2008:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Scott Brim <swb@employees.org> wrote:
> > On 7/3/08 7:00 PM, William Herrin allegedly wrote:
> >>
> >> As for MPLS, who wants to argue that MPLS -is-not- a map-encap protocol?
> >> Not me.
> >
> > There are some noticeable differences, mainly that the (current)
> > map-and-encap schemes use IP routing and forwarding as they are today.
> > There is no setup phase for encapsulating a packet, and a core
> > forwarder does not discriminate between an encapsulated packet and a
> > non-encapsulated packet.
> 
> Scott,
> 
> 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. 


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