The MPLS WG Archive

[David Charlap <David.Charlap@marconi.com>]

Eric Osborne wrote:
> 
> LDP lets you easily integrate IP and ATM; call it cell mode, call it
> LC_ATM, call it IP+ATM (I'm not sure which terms are cisco
> marketing-speak and which are standardized).  It's not immediately
> clear to me how you could do that with IP while using the existing
> ATM switch hardware and with only a control-plane upgrade.

It can also be done with LANE or CLIP, but these protocols have much
more overhead and can't directly connect with non-ATM switches, since
they don't use an IP-based control plane.

-- David