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initiating a discussion on mpls singaling protocols

  • From: David Charlap <david.charlap@marconi.com>
  • Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:00:14 -0400
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Vijayanand C - CTD, Chennai. wrote:
> In a network where you need to handle hundreds of thousands of LSPs, with a
> significant percentage of them going on and off frequently, would the soft
> state approach scale effectively ?

If refresh reduction (RFC 2961) is implemented, it will scale just as 
well as any other approach will.

Keep in mind that CR-LDP's seeming similicity is hiding all of the 
overhead inherent in using TCP for reliable delivery of control-plane 
packets.

-- David