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initiating a discussion on mpls singaling protocols

  • From: David Charlap <david.charlap@marconi.com>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:20:15 -0400
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Vijayanand C - CTD, Chennai. wrote:
>
> I accept your argument. However, it finally comes down to saying that
> RSVP-TE is not having more overhead than CR-LDP. Its taken a lot of add-ons
> and workarounds to RSVP to bring to this level. Thats why the question of
> complexity, implementation and maintenance issues related to software life
> cycle reduction were raised.

The fact that extensions are needed to make it scale doesn't make the 
protocol somehow worthless.  You don't say BGP is trash because version 
1 can't scale to the current size of the internet, do you?

-- David