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Is any Reservation done for Bypass Tunnels?

  • From: Ping Pan <pingpan@juniper.net>
  • Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 11:07:34 -0800
  • CC: Sachin Kalra <skalra@opnet.com>, mpls@UU.NET
  • User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2

Jean Philippe Vasseur wrote:

> At 18:52 19/11/2001 -0500, Sachin Kalra wrote:
> 
>> Hi:
>>
>> Please, can somebody tell me if any reservation is done for "Bypass 
>> Tunnels"?
> 
> 
> If what you look for is fast recovery only, the bypass tunnel can be 
> configured as unconstrained. If you want bandwidth protection, the 
> bypass tunnel will be set up WITH bandwidth. The amount of bandwidth 
> allocated to the bypass tunnel determine the level of bandwidth 
> protection you provide.


In addition, if you want to avoid running bandwidth admission control 
for the backup flows, you can simply set up a bypass LSP with EXP bit on.

- Ping


> 
> JP.
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Sachin Kalra
>>