IP: Re Experts call MPLS bad for 'Net

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> Subject: Re: IP: Experts call MPLS bad for 'Net
> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 10:25:57 -0400
> From: "Mike O'Dell" <mo () ccr org>
>
>
> it's pretty simple
>
> if you want privacy enough to deploy a vpn,
> the cost of crypto-tunnels is utterly a non-problem
>
> if you don't care enough to do crypto-tunnels, you
> don't care enough to worry about MPLS
>
> Remember -
>
>         "MPLS is just Frame Relay with found objects."
>
> people running MPLS-VPNs are simply turning their
> IP networks into poor simulations of a Cascade
> frame relay network.
>
> this is a very odd thing for an IP network operator
> to do, especially since it doesn't scale well at all.
> and as for the security problems mentioned by Bellovin
> and Bush, "Yeah, what they said."
>
>         -mo



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