On Friday, January 10, 2014 06:09:45 PM Eggert, Lars wrote:
The whole point of running MPLS is to create networks in
which paths are provisionable, so this is usually not an
issue. But if you start sticking MPLS inside of UDP,
those packets can go anywhere on the net, so you need
mechanisms to control the rate of that traffic if it
causes congestion, or at the very least you need to be
able to stop the traffic if it creates severe
congestion.
What most networks do is just police/shape traffic at
whatever rate you can afford to pay for, as it enters/leaves
the provider's network.
As MPLS is in UDP, all the provider sees is IP, as they
should. I don't think there will be any "special treatment"
to UDP traffic carrying MPLS, vs. UDP traffic carrying other
payloads.
Mark.
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