The MPLS WG Archive

[Bora Akyol <akyol@pluris.com>]

I presume you are not familiar with how MPLS is actually used in providers 
networks.

FEC to LSP binding is almost historical now.

Bora

At 10:55 AM 4/25/00 +0530, Manish R. Shah. wrote:

>Hi !!!
>
>Once the LSP's are created, the ingress router looks for the matching FEC, 
>and attaches
>a label corresponding to that FEC on to the data packet. Further 
>forwarding is done using
>the label switching.
>
>In an MPLS domain the LDP has already taken care of mapping
>FEC's with the incoming and outgoing Labels and efficient distribution of 
>Labels.
>
>Look at the following draft for furthur details.  draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-06.txt
>
>Cheers !!!
>
>Manish R. Shah.
>Senior Software Engineer,
>Future Software Pvt Ltd.
>480-481, Anna Salai, Nandanam
>Chennai 600035.
>Phone: +91-(44)-433-0550 Xten 294.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:   Neetu Gupta [SMTP:neetug@daewoo.dti.daewoo.co.kr]
>Sent:   Tuesday, April 25, 2000 10:28 AM
>To:     mpls@uu.net
>Subject:        Finding the Egress Point in the MPSL Domain for the 
>specific Destination
>
>Hello,
>     Suppose the LSPs are created among the Edge Routers in the MPLS
>Domain with specific class of services. Now the data packet comes at the
>Ingress LER, the IP Header contains the Destination Address and TOS
>byte.
>
>Since there are labels to Egress Router, to which Egress LER the data
>packet will be forwarded that will route to the Destination?
>
>I've heard of the draft that specifies how to treat LSP tunnel end node
>like LSP egress edge as next node for route calculations.
>Please give some reference.
>Neetu