Re: [mpls] Last Call: <draft-ietf-mpls-in-udp-04.txt> (Encapsulating MPL

On 1/16/14, 9:19 AM, Eggert, Lars wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2014-1-16, at 18:06, joel jaeggli <joelja(_at_)bogus(_dot_)com> wrote:
> > These tunnels are stateless
> yep. (But they don't have to be.)
They do in-fact have to be stateless with respect to the contents. They
will no doubt be created in a same distributed forwarding  engines that
currently do IP-MPLS encapsulation and L2-MPLS encapsulation. likewise
their decapsulation will occur in such devices.

> Look at it the other way: if transport area folks would want to send
> MPLS packets into the network in some problematic way, I'm sure the
> routing and ops folks would not be amused.
Today congestion occurs on MPLS networks. intermediate hops that are
congested have no choice but to drop packets.

> Lars

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