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  • From: Eric Osborne <eosborne@cisco.com>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 22:11:54 -0400
  • Cc: "'Eric Osborne'" <eosborne@cisco.com>, George Sheng <george_s97@hotmail.com>, scullptor@yahoo.com, mpls@UU.NET
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:02:53PM -0700, Shahram Davari wrote:
> > ECMP is inherent in the architecture. 
> 
> What? ECMP is a kludge to overcome LDP's inability to TE. 

That seems to be an Extremely Silly statement; if you want TE, use
RSVP.  RFC3209, in case you've missed it...:)



eric

> If you think about it doing hashing of multiple labels and perhaps
> IP header in the middle of an LSP actually defeats the purpose of
> MPLS, which was supposed to be have a simple label lookup in the
> core.

> -Shahram 
>

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