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swap & push operation

  • From: "Sajith Kizhikkepurayil" <Sajith_Kizhikkepurayil@pmc-sierra.com>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:03:14 -0700
  • Cc: <mpls@UU.NET>
  • X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Jun 2001 16:28:54.0516 (UTC) FILETIME=[C5A9E340:01C0F35C]

hi robert

   thanks for the clarification, the slide had it clearly explained

so if i want to establish an explicit path between 2 LSRs do I need
to use swap&push always, or is it only in special case like this ?


thanks
sajith

>One example can be the CSC (Carrier of Carriers) case. When the packet
>from ISP CE router is received to the carrier network it is a labeled
>packet. The label is ahead of time distributed from Carrier's PE to the
>CE.
>
>At the PE based on the incomming label value the label is being swapped
>+ new IGP label is being pushed on top of stack to get packets to the
>other side PE of the carrier (the one which faces the other ISP).
>
>For more graphical picture of this take a look at page from the below
>ppt url (sorry for this but I hate draw ascii pictures :).
>ftp://ftp-eng.cisco.com/rraszuk/interas_csc/RR_CSC_InterAS.ppt
>
>R.
>
>> Sajith Kizhikkepurayil wrote:
>>
>> hi
>>
>>       from rfc 3031:
>>       ----
>>       c) replace the label at the top of the label stack with a
>>          specified new label, and then push one or more specified new
>>          labels onto the label stack.
>>       ----
>>
>>       could somebody give me an application scenario ?
>>
>>       i understand that this is useful in ingress of an LSP
>>       i would like to know how exactly it works with respect
>to deciding
>>       the next hop, and how is the label that swaped&pushed being
>>       is decided
>>
>>       if this is already being discussed, please give me the
>pointers.
>>
>> thanks
>> sajith
>