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Re: MPLS aware NICs

  • From: sthaug@nethelp.no
  • Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:10:06 +0200
  • Cc: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
  • Resent-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:32:43 -0400
  • To: bjorn@mork.no

> Let's say you want to do policy routing on your edge, redirecting some
> packets to one or more servers located at a central server farm.  To
> do this you need tunnels from the edge routers to these servers.  Why
> not use MPLS tunnels?  The servers will have to terminate the tunnels
> no matter what protocol is used.  But they don't have to do any
> forwarding, and they don't really have to participate in the routing
> exchange.
> 
> I'd say that popping a label is much preferred to unwrapping ipsec or
> gre or whatever, even if you don't qualify as a router ;-)

I don't see what this gives you compared to terminating MPLS at a 
suitable PE router and using VLANs the rest of the way towards the
servers?

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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