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[Puddinhead Wilson <puddinghead_wilson007@yahoo.co.uk>]

Thanks,

I think so does freebsd

I need the NIC.


 --- Mat.e.Hobbis@alcatel.co.uk wrote: 
> 
> Seems like you are asking the wrong question. As
> hinted earlier in this
> chain, MPLS sits above the NIC level, i.e the same
> MPLS stack should work
> on all IF, so you need an OS that supports MPLS -
> take a look at Linux.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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>                       Puddinhead Wilson             
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>                       <puddinghead_wilson007@y      
>  To:       "McCallum, Robert"
> <robert.mccallum@thus.net>, "'Bjørn_Mork'"          
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>   <bjorn@mork.no>, "Bell, John" <john.bell@thus.net>
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>  cc:       "'Puddinhead Wilson'"
> <puddinghead_wilson007@yahoo.co.uk>,                
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>                       20/08/2004 13:02              
>   mpls-ops@mplsrc.com                               
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>  Subject:  RE: [MPLS-OPS]: MPLS aware NICs          
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> 
> 
> fine,
> 
> but if someone asked you where you could find them ,
> would you be nice enough to tell them :)?
> 
> -thanks
> 
>  --- "McCallum, Robert" <robert.mccallum@thus.net>
> wrote:
> > Thinks about what this end device would need to do
> > to be able to do that
> > properly.
> >
> > Have a sizable routing table.
> > Hold a full LIB for the whole network.
> > RSVP signalling.
> >
> > Are we going to bring in FRR as well?
> >
> > All of the above can be done oddly enough on
> devices
> > called routers.  Leave
> > the end device to be noddy and let the magic get
> > done on boxes that it
> > should be done on.
> >
> > I still don't see any benefit from an mpls nic.
> >
> > Robert McCallum
> > CCIE #8757 R&S
> > 01415663448
> > 07818002241
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Bjørn Mork [mailto:bjorn@mork.no]
> > > Sent: 20 August 2004 12:33
> > > To: Bell, John
> > > Cc: McCallum, Robert; 'Puddinhead Wilson';
> > mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
> > > Subject: Re: [MPLS-OPS]: MPLS aware NICs
> > >
> > >
> > > "Bell, John" <john.bell@thus.net> writes:
> > >
> > > >       None that I'm aware of. As Steinar says,
> you'd
> > have to
> > > run a routing
> > > > protocol on your workstation/server for it to
> > make any
> > > sense. Equally,
> > > > making an NIC MPLS-aware means writing an MPLS
> > stack in
> > > software, so I
> > > > suppose  some guys in a Uni lab may write
> their
> > own MPLS-aware NIC
> > > > stack as a project, and run "routed" on a
> Linux
> > box, just to
> > > > understand whats happening. But there will
> never
> > be a commercial
> > > > reason to do it, as you need to turn your
> server
> > into a software
> > > > router. As we all know, this is a crappy idea
> > when there
> > > are perfectly
> > > > good (i.e a million times better) hardware
> > routers around :-)
> > >
> > > 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 ;-)
> > >
> > >
> > > Bjørn
> > >
> >
> 
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