On Friday, January 10, 2014 06:09:45 PM Eggert, Lars wrote: > The whole point of running MPLS is to create networks in > which paths are provisionable, so this is usually not an > issue. But if you start sticking MPLS inside of UDP, > those packets can go anywhere on the net, so you need > mechanisms to control the rate of that traffic if it > causes congestion, or at the very least you need to be > able to stop the traffic if it creates severe > congestion. What most networks do is just police/shape traffic at whatever rate you can afford to pay for, as it enters/leaves the provider's network. As MPLS is in UDP, all the provider sees is IP, as they should. I don't think there will be any "special treatment" to UDP traffic carrying MPLS, vs. UDP traffic carrying other payloads. Mark.
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