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Basic LDP Question

  • From: Giles Heron <giles@packetexchange.net>
  • Date: 31 May 2002 18:36:40 +0000
  • Cc: "'mpls@uu.net'" <mpls@UU.NET>, "'ppvpn@ppvpn.francetelecom.com'" <ppvpn@ppvpn.francetelecom.com>

1.  Efficient encapsulation of VPN traffic
2.  Ability to run VPN on current hardware

There are probably other reasons as well...

On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 17:28, Shahram Davari wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What problem a mp2p LDP-based MPLS network is trying to solve (like the one used in RFC2547) that can't be done with pure IP forwarding?
> 
> Note: Don't tell me fast forwarding, because we can do fast IP lookup as well.
> 
> Yours,
> Shahram
> 
> 
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