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["Vach Kompella" <vkompella@timetra.com>]

I like that idea.  Since, from a need-to-know point of view, the outer LSP
doesn't care, why make it visible?

-Vach

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kireeti Kompella [mailto:kireeti@juniper.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 3:08 PM
> To: Markus Jork
> Cc: Vach Kompella; David Charlap; mpls@UU.NET
> Subject: Re: PHP
>
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Markus Jork wrote:
>
> > It looks to me as if the L3PID signaling seemed like a good idea at the
> > time but turned out to be not particularly useful.
>
> It's not that bad, but it is less than optimal.  One could use IP
> LSPs for IP, IP VPNs, etc., where the payload is IP; and establish a
> parallel set of LSPs for non-IP traffic.
>
> > Maybe it should be redefined to only
> > apply to packets with a label stack of 1 while all other packets on
> > the LSP with label stack > 1 are simply of unknown protocol type.
>
> That was my suggestion when this topic came up 2+ years ago, got
> little traction.  I still like it, though :-)
>
> Kireeti.
>