The MPLS WG Archive

[Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>]

Karthik,

> 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..

For those interested in answering this question, please read
the scalability analysis described in section 15 of 
draft-rosen-rfc2547bis-02.txt.

Yakov.

> 
> -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 jus
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> > a small  scale academic and government  toy; it would  have world-wide scop
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> > and be heavily used by commerce and industry.
> > 
> > I always  find it interesting  that people will  say that the  network laye
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> > mechanisms which  hold the Internet  together are unscalable, and  then wil
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> > advocate the use  of data link layer mechanisms instead.   I guess that onc
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> > we have  the scalable and easy to  manage "world wide lan",  or the scalabl
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> > and easy to  manage "word wide mesh of point-to-point  links", we won't nee
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> > stuff like BGP any more.
> > 
> > ***END OF SARCASM ALERT***
> > 
> > (and sorry for wasting everyone's time)
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