20 Jun
2020
20 Jun
'20
8:43 p.m.
On Jun 20, 2020, at 2:27 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:
On 20/Jun/20 00:41, Anoop Ghanwani wrote:
One of the advantages cited for SRv6 over MPLS is that the packet contains a record of where it has been.
I can't see how advantageous that is, or how possible it would be to implement, especially for inter-domain traffic.
Mark.
Since the packet is essentially source-routed, and the labels aren’t popped off the way they are in MPLS, but preserved in the hop by hop headers (AIUI), the implementation isn’t particularly difficult. Owen