>I have an even more fundamental question. ;-) Why does MPLS need a routing
>protocol at all?

To determine the potential topologies over which end-to-end, and 
alternate (e.g., shared risk groups) paths can be established, and 
THEN to which labels can be assigned on a node-by-node basis.


>Obviously, the forwarding of traffic doesn't use it. Forwarding is 
>based on the labels

Forwarding != label distribution != LSR/LER designation != topology discovery


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