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["Sanford, Bill" <bill.sanford@netplane.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

David, wouldn't the lack of information from the absence if the RSVP LSP
establishment almost guarantee that the RSVP Hellos can't be sent?

Bill