Re: Can we save couple of bytes in MPLS Packet?

Just wondering, why would you every want to compress it? Are you running
into a MTU issue using MPLS? Just like Marko said without it you are not
able to forward traffic, just like you won't be able to forward without the
IP Destination field.

Tom

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Kalpesh Chheda <kalpeshchheda_at_live.com>wrote:

> Thanks Marko.
>
> ----------------------------------------
> > From: markom_at_ipexpert.com
> > Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 18:09:32 -0800
> > Subject: Re: Can we save couple of bytes in MPLS Packet?
> > To: kalpeshchheda_at_live.com
> > CC: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> >
> > Each MPLS label is 4 bytes long (32 bits: 20 label, 3 COS/EXP, 1 BoS, 8
> > TTL). If you want to use MPLS, this must be there. Workaround is to not
> use
> > MPLS :-).
> >
> > --
> > Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427 (SP R&S)
> > Senior CCIE Instructor / Managing Partner - IPexpert
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Kalpesh Chheda <kalpeshchheda_at_live.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Experts,
> >>
> >> What I mean if we have MPLS Label 27 for some prefix 10.10.0.0/16
> >>
> >> So label 27 have 2 bytes of information for any packet that contains
> >> destination IP address of that prefix.
> >>
> >> So some how can we hide/compress that bytes?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Kalpesh
> >>
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