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[Yousuf Hasan <yhasan@cisco.com>]

At 12:07 PM 10/25/2001 -0700, Feng, Mark wrote:
>One thing it saves is the IP header, since multiple RSVP message will be
>packed into one.

The Summary Refresh helps solve the scaling issue a little more, but it can only be used for messages in steady state.  
Thanks

-Yousuf 



>If the question is, by the Bundle message itself, helps the scaling problem.
>IMO, not a whole lot.
>
>- Mark
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Arvind, K [mailto:arvind@tenornetworks.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 11:47 AM
>> To: 'mpls@uu.net'
>> Cc: Arvind, K
>> Subject: RFC2961 BUNDLE message
>> 
>> 
>> Does the BUNDLE message offer any real benefit in terms of 
>> reducing control
>> overhead? There seems to be no significant change in the 
>> overall amount of
>> control traffic that is generated or processed as a result of 
>> bundling (even
>> though the traffic is bunched together resulting in fewer (but larger)
>> messages). Does this mechanism really help in scaling RSVP?  
>> Could someone
>> throw light on this? Thanks.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Arvind.
>>