Each PE router maintains one or more per-site forwarding tables known as VRFs. When receiving an outbound customer data packet from a directly attached CE router, the PE router performs a route lookup ...
Forwarding table is used for address lookups. Forwarding table(s) is a copy of the routing table.
Editor's Note: To view a PDF version of this article, Click Here. Multiprotocol label-switching (MPLS) technology is about to take off. As the most widely used MPLS routers, label edge routers (LERs) ...