Re: [mpls] Last Call: <draft-ietf-mpls-in-udp-04.txt> (Encapsulating MPLS in UDP) to Proposed Standard

Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> Mon, 13 January 2014 05:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [mpls] Last Call: <draft-ietf-mpls-in-udp-04.txt> (Encapsulating MPLS in UDP) to Proposed Standard
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On Monday, January 13, 2014 03:30:04 AM Gregory Mirsky 
wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> if by "provisioning" you mean "mapped to", "assigned",
> then what about IP addresses? Ain't they pre-provisioned
> as well? Or these are native properties of NEs?

The path that two successive IP packets take to get from 
point A to B, in an MPLS-free network, can be arbitrary.

FEC's are constant for a group of IP destinations mapped to 
them.

Mark.