The MPLS WG Archive

[Loa Andersson <loa.andersson@utfors.se>]

Sharam,

if we have 2 years (well 18 month, and will be a lot more before er
see any cr-ldp deployment) experience of running rsvp-te + ldp, the
SIZE of the software will be a ery minor problem ;)

/Loa

Shahram Davari wrote:

> I think a question to ask is, which one requires less software to implement:
> 
> (LDP + CR-LDP) or (LDP + RSVP-TE)?
> 
> -Shahram
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David Charlap [mailto:david.charlap@marconi.com]
>>Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 10:42 AM
>>To: IETF MPLS List
>>Subject: Re: initiating a discussion on mpls singaling protocols
>>
>>
>>Bisewski, Radoslaw wrote:
>>
>>>But CR-LDP is an extension to the LDP protocol. While 
>>>
>>RSVP-TE has nothing in
>>
>>>common with LDP. After "eliminating" CR-LDP you will still 
>>>
>>have two MPLS
>>
>>>signalling protocols MPLS LDP and RSVP-TE.
>>>
>>So?  These two serve very different purposes and are not redundant.
>>
>>LDP automatically generates LSPs based on the routing table.
>>
>>RSVP-TE generates traffic-engineered LSPs based on requests from an 
>>ingress router.
>>
>>-- David
>>
>>
>>
> 


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