Penultimate hop popping
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Penultimate hop popping
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Penultimate hop popping (PHP) is specified in RFC 3031 Section 3.16 and is a function performed by certain routers in an MPLS enabled network. It refers to the process whereby the outermost label of an MPLS tagged packet is removed by a label switch router (LSR) before the packet is passed to an adjacent label edge router (LER). The benefit is that the LSR has to do a label lookup anyway and it doesn't make a difference whether this results in a label swap or pop. However, for the LER this saves
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penultimate_hop_popping
date created:
2005-08-10T23:30:58Z
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2024-09-05T23:59:05Z
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