Re: [mpls-linux-general] Do I need ldp?

[Yon U. <hav...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Mats Ydeklew wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new at mpls and have some questions.
>
> My test plan is to use mpls in a firewall environment with only the LSR
> functionality.
> Cisco routers take care of labelling the packets at the edge and my mpls
> Linux just
> watching the traffic that passes through.
>
> 1. Do I need ldp or Zebra to do this?
> 2. Have someone been testing mpls together with linux-vlan?

 I've been running mpls over linux-vlan on UML-instances. There are
problems since frames get +4 because of the VLAN-tag and +4(or more)
because of the MPLS label(s). Anything in between that doesnt like those
bigger frames will kill your network connection (NICs, NIC-drivers,
switches).

regards,
 yon