Re: Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

[Anoop Ghanwani <anoop () alumni duke edu>]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:40 AM Dave Bell <me () geordish org> wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 18:42, Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi> wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > > Why do we really need SR? Be it SR-MPLS or SRv6 or SRv6+?
> >
> > I don't like this, SR-MPLS and SRv6 are just utterly different things
> > to me, and no answer meaningfully applies to both.
>
> I don't understand the point of SRv6. What equipment can support IPv6
> routing, but can't support MPLS label switching?
>
> I'm a big fan of SR-MPLS however.
>
> One of the advantages cited for SRv6 over MPLS is that the packet contains
a record of where it has been.