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[David Charlap <david.charlap@marconi.com>]

manoj juneja wrote:
> 
>          The RSVP-TE draft states that the RSVP Hellos should be
> transmitted when there is a RSVP state between the neighbors i.e.
> when there is Path/Resv state. In other words, if there is a RSVP
> session between two nodes then the RSVP hellos need to be exchanged.
> If the RSVP session is to be released (i.e. graceful termination),
> does this mean that RSVP hellos should not be exchanged between the
> RSVP neighbors as long as there is no RSVP session between them ?

I don't think anything in there prohibits the exchange of Hello messages
in the absence of established Path/Resv state.  But it's not very
useful, either - since any detected failures will not result in changing
any state.

-- David