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  • From: Eric Rosen <erosen@cisco.com>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:09:49 -0400
  • cc: Shahram Davari <Shahram_Davari@pmc-sierra.com>, George Sheng <george_s97@hotmail.com>, scullptor@yahoo.com, mpls@UU.NET
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Shahram> ECMP is a kludge to overcome LDP's inability to TE. 

EricO> That seems to be an Extremely Silly statement

Yes, indeed.  That's  a bit like saying that dynamic routing  is a kludge to
overcome IP's inability to set up end-to-end circuits for individual flows.

The ability to do load  balancing without creating extra states is generally
construed as  a good  thing, but I  guess not  by the "CO  networking rules"
crowd.  Next  we'll be  hearing  that  equal  cost load  balancing  couldn't
possibly work; violates some ITU architecture, no doubt.  ;-)

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