The MPLS-OPS Archive

[Puddinhead Wilson <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?


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