{"id":626,"date":"2010-04-03T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T15:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccltd.net\/blog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2010-04-05T08:02:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T07:02:55","slug":"mpls-faq-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darenmatthews.com\/blog\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"MPLS FAQ &#8211; For Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a basic overview of MPLS describing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is Multi?Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)?<\/li>\n<li>What is a label? What is the structure of the label?<\/li>\n<li>Where will the label be imposed in a packet?<\/li>\n<li>What is a Forwarding Equivalence Class (FEC)?<\/li>\n<li>What is an upstream label switch router (LSR)?<\/li>\n<li>What is a downstream LSR?<\/li>\n<li>What do the terms incoming, outgoing, local, and remote mean when referring to labels?<\/li>\n<li>Can an LSR transmit\/receive a native packet (non?MPLS) on a MPLS interface?<\/li>\n<li>Can an LSR receive\/transmit a labeled packet on a non MPLS interface?<\/li>\n<li>What platforms and Cisco IOSs\u00ae support MPLS?<\/li>\n<li>Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnel has a overhead of 24 bytes.\u00a0 How much overhead does an MPLS LSP tunnel have?<\/li>\n<li>How does the LSR know which is the top label, bottom label, and a middle label?<\/li>\n<li>What is the range of label values? What label values are reserved andWhat do the reserved values signify?<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-627\" href=\"http:\/\/darenmatthews.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=627\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-635\" href=\"http:\/\/darenmatthews.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=635\">MPLS FAQ For Beginners<\/a> (.pdf)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a basic overview of MPLS describing: What is Multi?Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)? What is a label? What is the structure of the label? Where will the label be imposed in a packet? What is a Forwarding Equivalence Class (FEC)? What is an upstream label switch router (LSR)? What is a downstream LSR? What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darenmatthews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/darenmatthews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/darenmatthews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darenmatthews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darenmatthews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/darenmatthews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"http:\/\/darenmatthews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darenmatthews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darenmatthews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darenmatthews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}