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

["William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Scott Brim <swb@employees.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from William Herrin at 08:22:03 -0400 on Thu 10 Jul 2008:
>> 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.

Scott,

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.

Regards,
Bill


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