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On Oct 18, 2004, at 8:22 AM, vishwanathan mv wrote: > The purpose of using LDP is to automate the label distribution. But > the basic route that the packets take initially is the default ip > routes. Is this what we wanted? depends on how LDP is used. as you've said, LDP is for label distribution- how those labels are used is a different matter. For example in the case of martini you have a case of network ingress-egress. But if your point is that regular use of LDP relies on regular IP hop-by-hop forwarding that is a true and was the intention. > Haven't we lost out on our power to use MPLS (design our own routes) > - the reason for which it was designed? I know that using CR-LDP one > can get over this. RSVP-TE is one way to get around the hop-by-hop model. hope this helps > > Thanks in advance. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > -- Aamer Akhter / aa@cisco.com NSITE cisco Systems ------- The MPLS-OPS Mailing List Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.mplsrc.com/mplsops.shtml Archive: http://www.mplsrc.com/mpls-ops_archive.shtml
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