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[Shahram Davari <Shahram_Davari@pmc-sierra.com>]

 Silly or not, I am afraid it is the reality. LDP is inherently unable to do load ballancing, that is why this kludge is there.

-Shahram

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Osborne
To: Shahram Davari
Cc: 'Eric Osborne'; George Sheng; scullptor@yahoo.com; mpls@UU.NET
Sent: 6/27/02 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: your mail

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 
>