The MPLS WG Archive

[Karthik Muthukrishnan <mkarthik@lucent.com>]

Eric:

The question is not whether BGP is scalable. The question is whether informational rfc 2547 use of BGP to build MPLS VPNs is scalable..

-karthik

Eric Rosen wrote:
> 
> Yakov> P.S. While some folks like to complain about scalability and
> Yakov> problems with BGP
> 
> ***SARCASM ALERT***
> 
> Well, if BGP were really scalable, then the Internet would no longer be just
> a small  scale academic and government  toy; it would  have world-wide scope
> and be heavily used by commerce and industry.
> 
> I always  find it interesting  that people will  say that the  network layer
> mechanisms which  hold the Internet  together are unscalable, and  then will
> advocate the use  of data link layer mechanisms instead.   I guess that once
> we have  the scalable and easy to  manage "world wide lan",  or the scalable
> and easy to  manage "word wide mesh of point-to-point  links", we won't need
> stuff like BGP any more.
> 
> ***END OF SARCASM ALERT***
> 
> (and sorry for wasting everyone's time)
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