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Whats the point of an end host talking a signalling protocol, unless it is participating in the routing domain? And end hosts, by definition are "END" devices, which shouldnt participate in routing. They dont have other hosts sitting behind them, traffic from an end host goes one way - to and from a router, which decides where to send it. You're talking about the end host BECOMING a router, and as I said, what's the point in that? It's an END host! The only way what you're saying would make sense, was if the "end-host" is actually a server functioning as a software router. This can be a good thing, in a Uni lab, for guys to write their own stacks and to see whats happening from a Computer Science viewpoint, or for research into protocol behaviour, but it's a bad idea for commercial deployment because software routers are crap compared to hardware routers! For "crap" read "slow and unreliable" :-) cheers, John -----Original Message----- From: Puddinhead Wilson [mailto:puddinghead_wilson007@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 08:57 To: McCallum, Robert; mpls-ops@mplsrc.com Subject: RE: [MPLS-OPS]: MPLS aware NICs Yes but what if a. the end host can talk a signalling protocol? b. the end point identifiers in the end host/which would be orthogonal to the forwarding plane, can be "as many as you please". --- "McCallum, Robert" <robert.mccallum@thus.net> wrote: > 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 > ___________________________________________________________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
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