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MPLS label value range

  • From: Eric Osborne <eosborne@cisco.com>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:09:18 -0500
  • Cc: "Paola Iovanna (ERI)" <Paola.Iovanna@eri.ericsson.se>, mpls@UU.NET
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 01:54:42PM -0500, Wayne W. Szeto wrote:
> The range of MPLS labels is from 0 to (2^20 - 1), where label 0-15 are
> reserved.  
> 

...for frame-based.  For cell-based, the range is mostly size of the
VCI/VPI space; see rfc 3035.



eric

> 
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Paola Iovanna (ERI) wrote:
> 
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > I'd like to know which are the values that MPLS labels range over.
> > e.g. the first 4 bits are reserved, from 5 to x bits are used for ATM ( I don't know, it is just an example)...etc
> > 
> > Thank you!!!
> > 
> > Paola
> >