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Basic LDP Question

  • From: Ajay Simha <asimha@cisco.com>
  • Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 11:02:07 -0400 (EDT)
  • cc: "'raszuk@cisco.com'" <raszuk@cisco.com>, <neil.2.harrison@bt.com>, <mpls@UU.NET>, <ppvpn@ppvpn.francetelecom.com>

On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Shahram Davari wrote:

>SD:Robert,
>SD:
>SD:> This extra IP header you are adding in the front of the inner
>SD:> MPLS label
>SD:> is an "ip tunnel" ;-).
>SD:
>SD:Yes, I know it is called "IP tunnel". The point was that this
>SD:so called "IP tunnel" does not need to be created in advance.

Advance to what? I don't understand, surely you are not suggesting we do it in
the forwarding plane. Could you please elaborate here?

Thanks,

-ajay
>SD:
>SD:
>SD:-Shahram
>SD:

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