Re: [mpls] entropy label indicator labelindraft-kompella-mpls-entropy-label

Yong Lucy <lucyyong@huawei.com> Wed, 28 July 2010 13:14 UTC

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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:14:38 -0500
From: Yong Lucy <lucyyong@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [mpls] entropy label indicator labelindraft-kompella-mpls-entropy-label
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What I mean is that this approach could apply to P2MP LSP. One value can
make the backward compatibility in future easy.

Lucy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kireeti Kompella [mailto:kireeti@juniper.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:47 AM
> To: Yong Lucy
> Cc: mpls@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [mpls] entropy label indicator labelindraft-kompella-mpls-
> entropy-label
> 
> On Jul 28, 2010, at 05:15 , Yong Lucy wrote:
> 
> > Kireeti,
> >
> > There is one technical reason to have one common ELI label value: for
> > multicast packets.
> 
> How does one signal a multi-path p2mp LSP?
> 
> Kireeti.