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Re: MPLS VPNs or not?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Tue Aug 7 23:29:46 2001

Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 23:29:02 -0400
From: Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:25:50PM -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> 
> The point is very simple - virtual circuit routing does not scale.  That
> was beaten to death in ATM vs IP discussions years ago.

What does this have to do with VC routing?! And tunnels are probably closer to 
VC routing than 2547(bis) style VPNs.  What is your point?

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