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IETF Debates On: MPLS Is Bad

A reader writes "MPLS, or Multi-protocol Label Switching, seems to be a popular choice for router vendors nowadays until two AT&T researchers argue it differently. They "say MPLS create serious network management challenges for Internet backbone providers." "Even more dire are their warnings about potential security and privacy problems for companies that deploy MPLS-based VPNs." This issue will be discussed on an IETF meeting held this week in London. More details here ." Related to the IETF [?] , this submission came in: The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is now meeting in London for IETF-51. You can watch multicast sessions. "

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  1. Re:i live in MPLS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it sucks year-round, d00d

  2. Re:Ouch by RevAaron · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If MPLS is that bad, I guess I'm happy to be in Duluth!

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  3. While I agree this is a serious problem..WATCHOUT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I finally see msft's stratedgy. If msft beats the remidy judgement clock and releases XP without a remidy jugdement on XP, it's all over folks! XP will be there FINAL RELEASE and since upgrades will be for XP and not a future products, any court remidy will have ZERO effect on them!

    If ms beats the clock, they win!! ;-( :-(

    Also, I don't forsee msft giving the company makes partition magic the information they need to support the new XP filesystem, installing linux on devices will be very problematic, ie.. you'll have to buy a new harddrive to install linux on it. I suspect it may be damn near impossible to install another bootable storage medium on the new handhelds. This may have the effect of forcing people to choose msft or linux, but not both. Ever wonder why these new handheld linux devices have not made it to the united states market place? The yopy has been promised for years and yet has failed to make it to market; is this a department of Commerce vaporware stratedgy?

    Am I being too pestimistic folks?

  4. Re:Routers Suck by cperciva · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    but my site's routers or switches or something were down for like two days and I couldn't get my e-mail or anything. It really sucked.

    You know, when you troll like that you're supposed to sign the posts... something like "CmdrTaco", "Hemos", or perhaps "Anne Tomlinson".

  5. Re:Major Karma Whoring. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeh, a bulleted list? what the fuck?

  6. Re:Routers Suck by Jin+Wicked · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, I was trying to troll my troll, but I guess he's not around to post his usual Olsen Twins reply [to anything I say]. Slashdot doesn't have any of my old comments online any more with his comments attached. Hey buddy, you awake?

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  7. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  8. i live in MPLS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and im trolling

  9. It's Raining Men - Geri Halliwell by Mao+Zedong · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Humidity's rising
    Barometer's getting low
    According to all sources
    The street's the place to go

    'Cos tonight for the first time
    At just about half past ten
    For the first time in history
    It's gonna start raining men

    It's raining men
    Hallelujah it's raining men, Amen
    It's raining men
    Hallelujah it's raining men, Amen

    Humidity's rising
    Barometer's getting low
    According to all sources
    The street's the place to go

    'Cos tonight for the first time
    At just about half past ten
    For the first time in history
    It's gonna start raining men

    It's raining men
    Hallelujah it's raining men, Amen
    I'm gonna go out
    I'm gonna let myself get
    Absolutely soaking wet

    It's raining men
    Hallelujah it's raining men
    Every specimen
    Tall blond dark and mean
    Rough and tough and strong and lean

    God bless Mother Nature
    She's a single woman too
    She took on a heaven
    And she did what she had to do
    She taught every angel
    To rearrange the sky
    So that each and every woman
    Could find her perfect guy

    It's raining men
    Go get yourself wet girl
    I know you want to

    I feel stormy weather moving in
    About to begin
    Hear the thunder
    Don't you lose your head
    Rip off the roof and stay in bed

    It's raining men Hallelujah
    It's raining men, Amen
    It's raining men Hallelujah
    It's raining men, Amen

    It's raining men Hallelujah
    It's raining men, Amen
    It's raining men Hallelujah
    It's raining men, Amen

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  10. sysadmins view by jlemmerer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    all your routing problems are belong to us BSD or not BSD, that's the REAL question

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  11. Routers Suck by Jin+Wicked · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't know anything about this, but my site's routers or switches or something were down for like two days and I couldn't get my e-mail or anything. It really sucked.

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    My Webcomic: Asylum on 5th Street