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["James R. Leu" <jleu@mindspring.com>]

Hello,

If you are referring to the ldp-portable package that is part of the
"MPLS for Linux" project, please post questions to the appropriate mailing
list:

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Thanks,
Jim

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:02:53PM +0530, N.Suresh wrote:
> Hi all, 
>     I am implementing the LDP on linux.. 
>     i have some queries. 
> 
>    (1)   The Hello Message send on as multicast on a Multicast socket.
> Suppose 
>   that after adjacency discvery a connection is established between the 
>   two machines. Furthor LDP message transmission is going on the TCP 
>   socket. To identify the link usage we want again tranceive Hello 
>   message. I have the doubt that which socket we want to be use for the 
>   Hello message, whether the multicasted socket or the TCP socket. 
> 
> 
> (2)  If the  next hop has changed, and I have sent Label Abort msg to
> that 
>   hop. Will it be reach at there?. Then what is the significance of the 
>   Label Aborted message? 
> 
> 
> (3)  The Address message is used to send the Interface message to the
> next 
>   hop. But the Address Family field of the Address message tells the 
>   address types are either IPv4 or IPv6. What is it . 
> 
> 
>   (3.1) Is it a string value?. Actually interface address is a 48 bit
> address of the 
>    interface. 
>   (3.2) So how it can be either IPv4 or IPv6?. 
>   (3.3) The interface address are taken care by the Link Level Layers. 
>    So what is the need for the LDP to care by the interface address. 
>    One of the ans. is to identify the link through which the Hello 
>    msg. is comming. 
> 
> 
>     anybody has any idea? 
> 
> 
>     thanx in advance 
>     regards 
> 
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