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Basic LDP Question

  • From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@juniper.net>
  • Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 10:41:04 -0700
  • cc: Shahram Davari <Shahram_Davari@pmc-sierra.com>, "'mpls@uu.net'" <mpls@UU.NET>, "'ppvpn@ppvpn.francetelecom.com'" <ppvpn@ppvpn.francetelecom.com>

Giles,

> 1.  Efficient encapsulation of VPN traffic
> 2.  Ability to run VPN on current hardware
> 
> There are probably other reasons as well...

One of the "other reasons" is straightforward protection against packet 
spoofing.

Yakov.

> 
> 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 we
ll.
> > 
> > Yours,
> > Shahram
> > 
> > 
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