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Re: [RRG] Map-encap space for "server" vs. "client" end-users?

To: "Brian Dickson" <briand@ca.afilias.info>
Subject: Re: [RRG] Map-encap space for "server" vs. "client" end-users?
From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 19:32:44 -0500
Cc: "Scott Brim" <swb@employees.org>, "Robin Whittle" <rw@firstpr.com.au>, "Routing Research Group" <rrg@psg.com>
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On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Brian Dickson <briand@ca.afilias.info> wrote:
>  It's the other way around that matters - your packets being tunneled,
>  means you don't get to see things like:
>  - ICMP unreachables concerning the outer header destination
>  - ICMP MTU exceeded concerning the outer header
>  - ICMP TTL exceeded concerning the outer header

Brian,

How is this handled in today's MPLS networks? It seems like they
should have essentially the same problem: the packet faults at a node
which doesn't know how to interpret the contents of a packet with the
given label.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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