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Route Aggregation and MPLS

  • From: Srihari Raghavan <sraghava@vt.edu>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:37:58 -0500
  • Importance: Normal
  • Resent-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:09:39 -0500
  • To: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com

Hi all,
  While going through the "MPLS technology and applications" book and other
web resources, it seems to point out that Route aggregation will be very bad
for MPLS (particularly in control-driven mode, essential for MPLS Traffic
Engineering), in that the intermediate LSRs will be forced to do L3
forwarding too. I also happened to see a paper on label switching in IPv6
networks, saying that, high route aggregation in IPv6 networks would be
detrimental for MPLS.
  Can anyone please explain the consequences or some facts/explanations
regarding this problem. I happen to think that future networks will use a
good amount of route aggregation.

Thank you in advance

Srihari Raghavan
Graduate student
Dept. of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
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