Re: [mpls] [Bier] [bier] The first nibble issue associated with MPLS encapsulation

Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com> Thu, 14 April 2016 19:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [mpls] [Bier] [bier] The first nibble issue associated with MPLS encapsulation
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On 14/04/2016 16:11, Loa Andersson wrote:
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> /Loa
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> On 2016-04-14 22:41, Nagendra Kumar Nainar (naikumar) wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Per IANA registry, 0-1 are ³Reserved² and so is not strictly assigned 
>> with
>> PW. Something like a modified CW beneath LSE?. Further, BIER is 
>> hop-by-hop
>> lookup based. So I think we don¹t need to include this always. 
>> Instead, we
>> could conditionally include this, if the next BFR is tunneled (not
>> directly connected).
>>
>> The receiving node will use the label to identify the payload/FEC. So I
>> think, the presence of modified CW should not confuse it with PW.

Not quite Loa.

It could be an Ethernet PW with no CW.

Stewart