[c-nsp] MPLS vs CEF

[John Neiberger]

That's kind of what I was thinking, but I wasn't sure. I don't have
any production experience with MPLS yet. It seemed to me that if no
other MPLS features were going to be used, there would be no point in
enabling it.

Thanks!
John

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:
> Nope.
>
> Infact you will lose a few bits in the overhead of MPLS+IP.
>
> - Jared
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> 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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