Subject: Re: MPLS on the end hosts

From: Jeremy Lawrence <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:09:52 +1100

At 10:30 02/14/2001 -0600, Narayanan Vidya-CVN065 wrote:
>All,
>I remember having done some reading on extending MPLS all the way to the host a while ago. Has there been any interest in the working group in this area at all? 

Not for a few years. :)

There was a thought that high-performance servers would benefit
from connecting directly into an MPLS network without an
intervening eLSR. Leaving aside the wisdom or practicality (or
otherwise) of such a capability, it could be achieved by
putting a full eLSR stack on the host. The working group has
already defined the eLSR stack, so that sort of host support
has effectively been defined.

If 'MPLS to the host' means something else, then it is not obvious
that there is any real benefit from it (as Bora points out).

Jeremy Lawrence