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per interface lable space validity

  • From: Shahram Davari <Shahram_Davari@pmc-sierra.com>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 06:41:49 -0800

Hi,

In your scenario, if the signaling (CR-LDP/RSVP-TE) is tunneled through that tunnel then you can use per-interface label space, otherwise you should use per-platform label space, because you don't know from which interface the packet will arrive.

Yours,
-Shahram 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: shen jing [mailto:jshen@cad.zju.edu.cn]
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 5:56 AM
> To: mpls@UU.NET
> Subject: per interface lable space validity
> 
> 
> I'm reading rfc3036 - "LDP specification", at section 2.2.1 
> Lable spaces
> , it is said a per interface
> lable space only makes sense when the LDP peers are "directly
> connected".
> what is "directly connected" ?   If two LSRs are connected by a tunnel
> which generate
> another layer on Label stack , a per interface label is not 
> meaningful ?
> 
> thanks a lot.
> 
> James Shen
>