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destination address of the IP Header carrying the Path message should be

  • From: Eric Osborne <eosborne@cisco.com>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:06:57 -0500
  • Cc: mpls@UU.NET
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:45:41PM -0500, Hong Liao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Would you be able to tell me which RFC or draft indicates what the
> destination address of the IP Header carrying the Path message should be?
> 

rfc2205, sec. 3.1.3


> For my understanding, for the path msg, the destination address of the IP
> Header carrying the Path message should be the Egress address.  (Could it
> be the next-hop address?).

...
         A Path message travels from a sender to receiver(s) along the
         same path(s) used by the data packets.  The IP source address
         of a Path message must be an address of the sender it
         describes, while the destination address must be the
         DestAddress for the session
....




eric