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MPLS/BGP routing question

  • From: "S.Matsushima" <satoru@japan-telecom.co.jp>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 10:23:38 +0900
  • CC: <mpls@UU.NET>
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on 00.9.30 0:32 AM, Eric Rosen at erosen@cisco.com wrote:

> 
> Matsushima> When a  LSP of PE to  PE broken, BGP  has no way of  LSP broken.
> Matsushima> Then, BGP keep  up of VPN routes and VPN  traffic going to black
> Matsushima> hole, until LSP available.
> 
> Matsushima> As a result,  VPN customer can not back up  their traffic to any
> Matsushima> link.
> 
> Matsushima> I think this is one of most seriously problem of BGP/MPLS VPN.
> 
> The  situation you  are worried  about is  where there  is  IGP connectivity
> between the edges,  but for some reason labeled packets  cannot make it from
> one edge to another.

Yes, exactly.

> I guess we don't really see this as a realistic failure
> scenario.  Sure, buggy software could cause this, but there's a million ways
> in which buggy software could cause undetected packet loss.
> 

I think that LSP failure was caused by not only buggy software but also
oparation failure.
For example, i) erase a interface as LDP ID ;-< , ii) routes summarization
failure on ospf area,...

IMO, BGP which on PE should has some way to know of LSP failure.
This is for customer.

--
Satoru Matsushima