FECs, LDP, and BGP in the MPLS World
After discussing the basics of MPLS and LDP in our chat, Seamus Gilchrist and myself focused on a concept that perplexes many networking engineers entering the MPLS world: the relationship between Forward Equivalence Classes (FEC), LDP and BGP.
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