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Re: SRm6 (was:SRv6)


From: Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 12:05:24 +0300

On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 11:03, James Bensley <jwbensley+nanog () gmail com> wrote:

MPLSoUDP lacks transport engineering features  like explicit paths, FRR LFA and FRR rLFA, assuming only a single IP 
header is used for the transport abstraction [1]. If you want stuff like TI-LFA (I assume this is supported in SRm6 
and SRv6, but I'm not familiar with these, sorry if that is a false assumption) you need additional transport headers 
or a stack of MPLS labels encapped in the UDP header and then you're back to square one.

One of us has confusion about what MPLSoUDP is. I don't run it, so might be me.

SPORT == Entropy (so non-cooperating transit can balance)
DPORT == 6635 (NOT label)
Payload = MPLS label(s)

Whatever MPLS can do MPLSoUDP can, by definition, do. It is just
another MPLS point-to-point adjacency after the MPLSoUDP
abstraction/tunnel.

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  ++ytti


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