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RE: Fwd: Loop Back Address

  • From: "Lars Higham" <lhigham@yahoo.com>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:44:10 +0530
  • Cc: "'MPLS-ops Mailing List'" <mpls-ops@mplsrc.com>
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  • Resent-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:45:46 -0400
  • To: "'Eric Osborne'" <eosborne@cisco.com>, "'Roger Clark Williams'" <rogerw@nordlink.com>

Missing a word or two?  Allows MPLS to find more than one path for an
LSP to a router maybe -

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Osborne [mailto:eosborne@cisco.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 7:00 AM
To: Roger Clark Williams
Cc: MPLS-ops Mailing List
Subject: Re: Fwd: [MPLS-OPS]: Loop Back Address


On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:04:31PM -0400, Roger Clark Williams wrote:
> Vishal, one use of the loopback address is that it allows MPLS to find

> more
> than one LSP to a router. This makes MPLS more resilient, flexible.

Not sure I understand this - can you clarify?



eric 


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