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diff --git a/net-dialup/ppp/files/README.mpls b/net-dialup/ppp/files/README.mpls new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..1ae7ae46057a --- /dev/null +++ b/net-dialup/ppp/files/README.mpls @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +MPLS consists of 3 components: +1. MPLS forwarding +2. MPLS signalling +3. Mapping layer 3 traffic onto MPLS LSPs + +The document mpls-forwarding basics explains item 1. + +Examples of MPLS signalling protocols are: RSVP-TE LDP and CR-LDP. +The package ldp-portable is an implementation of LDP and contains more +information about LDP based MPLS signalling. + +Mapping of layer 3 traffic to MPLS LSPs is accomplised in a couple of +different ways. +-Per FEC where FEC is an entry in the routing table +-Virtual interface that represents an LSP |