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Re: MPLS VPNs or not?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Aug 7 10:22:28 2001

From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:14:02 +0100
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> Take a look at the mpls@uu.net archives for a rather exhaustive and
> exhausting discussion of this very subject, or provide facts as to what
> specifically doesn't scale.

to paraphrase vijay, if dealing with one rib is a major discussion in the
operator and ietf communities, how many thousands of them do you think a
prudent operator wants to deal with in 2547?

did you notice all those extra *e routers with 2547?  do you wonder why
router vendors push 2547?

randy

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