[afnog] SRv6

[Mark Tinka]

On 12/Dec/18 09:01, Andrew Alston wrote:

> Mark,
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>  
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> Thing is – you don’t need SRv6 to get rid of v4 – you can use v6 with
> SR using standard label stack – the only difference with SRv6 and SR
> is that your hops are embedded inside the v6 extension headers rather
> than using standard label stack for the same thing.  SR without SRv6
> is entirely address family agnostic, hence the question
>

So SRv6 appears to be a complete alternative to (SR)MPLS.

If you want to get rid of MPLS - and its associated control planes such
as RSVP-TE, LDP, e.t.c - then you can encode the label stack in the IPv6
EH's since and totally take MPLS out of your network.

That appears to be the use-case.

Mark.
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