Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] IPv6 over MPLS coding

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From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 08:27:30 +1100
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 04:21:06PM -0500, Ashok Narayanan wrote:
> The interior encapsulation of data within an MPLS packet is signalled by
> out-of-band protocols. So there's no way to determine what the packet is. It
> could be another MPLS label, IPv4, IPv6, Ethernet, ATM, Frame Relay - just
> about anything. It is MultiProtocol Label Switching, after all.
> 
> I don't know how you can do a packet-by-packet decision :-(

I concur. Do you think that looking at the IP version field
(as in my patch) is better than just assuming IPv4?


regards,
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@xxxxxxxxxx> <hamish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>