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Re: MPLS aware NICs

  • From: Puddinhead Wilson <puddinghead_wilson007@yahoo.co.uk>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:30:00 +0100 (BST)
  • Cc: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
  • Resent-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:12:02 -0400
  • To: sthaug@nethelp.no

:))
there are more MAC addresses than IP addresses :)

though VPLS may answer a lot of these questions I
feel.

The question is never what the "provider feels". The
provider is just a "means to an end". If the end user
feels ethernet is cheaper, he will prefer it and all
happy providers will provide it.

For that matter in my country, there is a large scale
ethernet last mile for Internet services itself at as
cheap as 5$ a month.

Some of these guys NAT you too, and it works out just
fine for customer access.


 --- sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: 
> > 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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