The MPLS WG Archive

[Jean Philippe Vasseur <jvasseur@cisco.com>]

At 22:43 21/04/2002 +0200, dirk @pandora wrote:
> Hi to
> all,
>  
> On this moment i'm working on a project on
> implementing fast rerouting on a MPLS network.
>  
> the test are not that succesfull.
>  
> when their's a TE tunnel between two PE routers
> and i'm protecting a link between two P routers on the LSP, everithing is
> working perfect. traffic is swapped on the backup tunnel.
>  
>  
>  
> ---PE----------------P------------------------P-------------PE
>                        
> \                       
> /
>                         
> \                    
> /
>                           
> ------------------
>                          
> backup path
>  
> The problem is when the TE tunnel and the
> backup tunnels haed end is the same router, on this moment i'm loosing
> packets the moment the interface goes down, and the backup path is
> taken.
> I
>  
> Is it not possible to protect the link between
> two routers if the head end of the main tunnel and the backup tunnel are
> the same ???

This is of course possible.

JP.

>  
>  
> Thanks for your response.
>  
> Dirk Wilmaerts
>  
>