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Are these not at different OSI layers and should be handled correctly by encapsulation?
by web007 10y ago
Are these not at different OSI layers and should be handled correctly by encapsulation?
- danudey 10y agoThey are, but these routers are doing inspection, even when they should be purely Layer 2, and then doing it stupidly, and then breaking.
- wmf 10y agoTo save space in the MPLS header, it doesn't specify what comes next. So inside an MPLS packet may be Ethernet, IP, or something else and in many cases the switch/router has no way of knowing what is inside the packet, but it still wants to find the 5-tuple to generate ECMP entropy.
- linkregister 10y agoI was not aware that MPLS provides for encapsulation of Layer 2 frames.
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