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Label stacking

  • From: Ajay Simha <asimha@cisco.com>
  • Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 07:20:24 -0500
  • Cc: mpls@UU.NET
  • User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i

On Mon Jan 06 10:22:02 2003, Atmesh Srivastava wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> I have a basic doubt in a Label Stacking scenario.
> 
> In a PPP network , the label is encapsulated as 20 bit in a MPLS shim
> header encapsulation . Now for label stacking , say for a depth of 2 ,
> are there  2 MPLS shim headers after the frame header and before the IP
> header , with the bottom header having the stack bit set ?

yes.
-ajay
> 
> If not so , then please clarify the encapsulation for label stacking ?
> 
> Thanks ,
> 
> Regards ,
> Atmesh
> 
> 
> 
> 
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