[c-nsp] MPLS vs CEF

Jared Mauch jared at puck.nether.net
Thu Jul 1 11:22:14 EDT 2010


Nope.

Infact you will lose a few bits in the overhead of MPLS+IP.

- Jared

On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:02 AM, John Neiberger wrote:

> I'm curious about something. Let's say a company has a large internal
> network that needs to move a lot of data quickly on a regular basis,
> but just within the enterprise. If they already have CEF enabled on
> all routers, is there any performance gain to be had by then enabling
> MPLS and switching based on labels instead of using CEF alone? I'm
> just learning MPLS and I really have no reference for how it performs
> compared to CEF alone.
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