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Re: MPLS aware NICs

  • From: sthaug@nethelp.no
  • Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:26:06 +0200
  • Cc: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
  • Resent-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:11:17 -0400
  • To: puddinghead_wilson007@yahoo.co.uk

> For that matter I dont even see what the PE does
> 
> why not simply stack VLANs /or/use ethernet in
> ethernet and do away with the PE routers?

Feel free to try.  Many providers have concluded that it's difficult
to scale pure L2 solutions. I happen to agree with them. Thus I *hope*
my competitors will try create large L2 networks :-)

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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