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

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Thu, 23 January 2014 21:20 UTC

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On 1/23/2014 2:37 AM, Eggert, Lars wrote:
> Since we're repeating ourselves, I'll again say that encapsulators are not forwarding nodes from the viewpoint of the network they tunnel over. They are traffic sources.

+1

Just as NATs act like sources to the networks they traverse (NATs being 
a kind of tunnel that replaces encapsulation with translation).

In both cases, they ought to behave just like any other source on that 
network.

Joe

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