The MPLS WG Archive

["George Sheng" <george_s97@hotmail.com>]

] 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...:)
]

Ok, let's not to argue with the diff between the ECMP and TE;
The point is that, it's trivial to do per packet loadsharing,
I assume this is not you meant by "architecture". The trick
is to do flow based loadsharing in the middle of LDP tunnels
without performance degradation.

]
]
] 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
] >
]
-george


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