Jump to content

Forwarding equivalence class

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 132.177.124.73 (talk) at 14:39, 22 July 2004. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

A FEC (Forward Equivalence Class) is a set of packets that can be handled (i.e. Forwarded) in the same manner and thus is suitable for binding to a single MPLS label. The set of packets destined for one address prefix is one example of an FEC.