[c-nsp] MLPPP and ip load-sharing per-packet

[Rodney Dunn]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 12:54:09PM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Rodney Dunn wrote:
> 
> >> Is CEF support for tag-switching over MLPPP the sort of thing I can find
> >> in FN (I kind of doubt it).  If not, how big an upgrade from 12.2.14S3
> >> would we need to get that support?
> >
> > It's gonna be a post 12.2(25)S version that has the new CEF code.
> >
> > It will be an SB release.
> >
> > You should be able to get the support of MLPPP/MPLS with 12.3 mainline
> > code if it supports all your other features.
> 
> Comparing 12.2.14S3 to 12.3.16, it doesn't look like we'd lose anything 
> we use...except for this, which seems to be an error in FN version 
> compare.
> 
> It says the following feature is unique to 12.2.14S3...but 12.3M does MPLS 
> VPN, and we have at least one 7206 already running 12.3 code doing bgp 
> with address-family vpnv4.
> 
>   Multi-protocol BGP (MP-BGP) - MPLS VPN

MPLS VPN's are definitely in 12.3.

I thought the common 12.2S thing was SSH and/or IPV6 for some folks.


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