[j-nsp] Limit on interfaces in bundle

Saku Ytti saku at ytti.fi
Tue Nov 3 12:25:36 EST 2015


On 3 November 2015 at 17:19, Adam Vitkovsky <Adam.Vitkovsky at gamma.co.uk> wrote:
> But I like your example with the Entropy label.
> What if the topmost label value or even better the VPN/VC label could indicate how to parse the remainder of the packet.
> And if a middle node or end node(in case of a VPN/VC label) doesn't understand the encoding it would just label switch the packet blindly.
> It should be very simple to implement and also to adjust the label-space so that it doesn't conflict with anything else
> So all nodes that support the feature would start allocating with:
> 847.... MPLS-UNSPECIFIED
> 848.... MPLS-IP
> 849.... MPLS-ETH
> And so forth..

What benefit would L3/L4 keys give, if there is useful per stream
entropy in MPLS labels?

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