The MPLS-OPS Archive[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index][Thread Index][Author Index][Subject Index] RE: MPLS aware NICs
Hi Rab, None that I'm aware of. As Steinar says, you'd have to run a routing protocol on your workstation/server for it to make any sense. Equally, making an NIC MPLS-aware means writing an MPLS stack in software, so I suppose some guys in a Uni lab may write their own MPLS-aware NIC stack as a project, and run "routed" on a Linux box, just to understand whats happening. But there will never be a commercial reason to do it, as you need to turn your server into a software router. As we all know, this is a crappy idea when there are perfectly good (i.e a million times better) hardware routers around :-) Cheers, John -----Original Message----- From: McCallum, Robert [mailto:robert.mccallum@thus.net] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 09:27 To: 'Puddinhead Wilson'; mpls-ops@mplsrc.com Subject: RE: [MPLS-OPS]: MPLS aware NICs Can we keep this one online please. I would like to know what benefits an MPLS aware NIC could give you. Interesting topic although I doubt it if there are any about. To me all that it would do is bring the stripping of the topmost label one hop closer. Not a big benefit there really. Robert McCallum CCIE #8757 R&S 01415663448 07818002241 > -----Original Message----- > From: Puddinhead Wilson [mailto:puddinghead_wilson007@yahoo.co.uk] > Sent: 19 August 2004 19:40 > To: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com > Subject: [MPLS-OPS]: MPLS aware NICs > > > Hi Folks, > > Is some one aware/Is there a place where I can find > MPLS aware NICs? > > If yes please contact me offline. > > -PW. > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ALL > -NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ------- The MPLS-OPS Mailing List Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.mplsrc.com/mplsops.shtml Archive: http://www.mplsrc.com/mpls-ops_archive.shtml ------- The MPLS-OPS Mailing List Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.mplsrc.com/mplsops.shtml Archive: http://www.mplsrc.com/mpls-ops_archive.shtml ------- The MPLS-OPS Mailing List Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.mplsrc.com/mplsops.shtml Archive: http://www.mplsrc.com/mpls-ops_archive.shtml
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