Re: ECN

[David Freedman <david.freedman () uk clara net>]

Interesting , I hadn't followed this since draft-ietf-mpls-ecn-00,
, I eagerly await a vendor implementation :)

Dave.

Bjørn Mork wrote:
> David Freedman <david.freedman () uk clara net> writes:
>
> > Implementing this in an MPLS core is not an easy task, you can really
> > only do this on the edge, when the MPLS labelled packet arrives at an
> > LSR, we don't know if it contains a TCP segment or not (fancy deep h/w
> > implementations excluded), all we know is that , if there is congestion,
> > we can discard it based on the EXP bits in the shim.
>
> Please see RFC 5129
>
>
> Bjørn