Re: Just shy of OT MPLS Question

Good evening Sir,

I am pressed for time, so please forgive the quick and short response.
Outer labels come from IGP, and not from BGP ... so no way to use BGP for
this. HTH,

Andrew Lee Lissitz

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:07 PM, <Keegan.Holley_at_sungard.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know why you cannot use BGP routes to build MPLS tunnels. Is
> it the obvious (slow hello timers, possibly next hop ambiguity) or is
> there something inherent in the protocol suite (MPLS, RSVP, LDP) that
> makes it impossible.
> Not that I would ever want to... Just a little curious.
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