[109083] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MPLS for IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Wyble)
Tue Nov 4 16:24:22 2008
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:24:08 -0800
From: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <d0fea3580811041253l6d7a86e3h69c968ccdcfdddac@mail.gmail.com>
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devang patel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does any vendor support the MPLS for native IPv6 network?
> I was working on one testing scenario where I have Cisco 7200 routers and
> whole network is running only IPv6 and I wanted to run MPLS on the top of
> that but I found MPLS is not supported on IPv6 networks? is that true?
>
>
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/ipv6/configuration/guide/ip6-over_mpls_ps6922_TSD_Products_Configuration_Guide_Chapter.html
would say it's possible.
However (I'm not an expert at MPLS so forgive me if I'm wrong) isn't
MPLS at a lower level and you run IP on top of it? That seems to be what
initial research indicates. See the NANOG talk archives for lots of MPLS
presentations.
