The MPLS WG Archive

[Bora Akyol <bora@cisco.com>]

For a discussion of TTL in MPLS networks, you may want to see
draft-agarwal-mpls-ttl-01.txt.

We are planning on asking the WG to make this a WG document at this IETF.
(We have already asked on the list as well).

Bora

At 02:09 PM 11/26/2001 -0500, Thomas Nadeau wrote:

>> From what I can see, none of the MPLS MIBs seem to acknowledge TTL. 
>> There's a couple of issues to address:
>>
>>- what to do at the egress of a non-TTL capable link. (e.g. how much to 
>>decrement the value). This looks like an LSR-MIB "in-segment" table issue.
>
>         That is true, but to-date, no neither the vendors implementing 
> them nor the
>SPs using them one has found it necessary to add them. What would you like 
>to see?
>
>>- whether to use pipe or uniform model at an LSR ingress point
>>(which looks like it hits a bunch of places, FTN, MPLS-TE and LSR).
>
>         I don't understand what you mean by a "pipe or uniform model" above.
>
>         --Tom
>