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Re: [mpls] Last Call: <draft-ietf-mpls-in-udp-04.txt> (Encapsulating MPLS in UDP) to Proposed Standard

2014-01-23 15:21:17


On 1/23/2014 2:37 AM, Eggert, Lars wrote:
Since we're repeating ourselves, I'll again say that encapsulators are not 
forwarding nodes from the viewpoint of the network they tunnel over. They are 
traffic sources.

+1

Just as NATs act like sources to the networks they traverse (NATs being a kind of tunnel that replaces encapsulation with translation).

In both cases, they ought to behave just like any other source on that network.

Joe

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