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["David Allan" <dallan@nortelnetworks.com>]

Hi George:

Thanks for the clarification, tells me I shouldn't have been the person to
answer this question as I appear to be confusing tunnel ID and LSP ID.

rgds
Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Swallow [mailto:swallow@cisco.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:18 AM
> To: Allan, David [CAR:NS00:EXCH]
> Cc: George Swallow; Der-Hwa Gan; Gray, Eric; mpls@UU.NET;
> swallow@cisco.com
> Subject: Re: Decreasing TE-LSP bandwidth, "interoperability 
> issue" (fwd)
> 
> 
> 
> > I was envisioning a case where a bandwidth change was not a 
> separate tunnel
> > setup, the LSP ID changed without any interruption or change in the
> > conntectivity of the path . If there is build the new then 
> tear down the
> > old, then there is no gap in any monitoring case.
>  
> If you change the LSP-ID, that changes the sender-template.  Ipso
> facto a new setup.
> 
> > As for TTSI, it's simply a node specific LSP Identifier 
> that allows for an
> > IPv4/v6 LSR ID and 32 bits for an LSP identifier. The 
> assumption is that the
> > originating LSR most usefully administers LSP-IDs 
> independently of the
> > individual control protocol used. The initial draft of 
> Y.1711 was focused on
> > P2P ER-LSPs which meant RSVP-TE or CR-LDP, hence the 
> stipulation that the
> > first two bytes of the LSP-ID were padded with zeros to 
> align with LSP-ID as
> > defined in the signalling protocols. If there is a problem 
> with this, it is
> > not leaping out at me....
> 
> As we use it, an (RSVP-TE) LSP-ID is *only* unique to the tunnel.  We
> just use it as an instance number and increment it when we reroute or
> change bandwidth.  If I setup five tunnels they will have five
> different tunnel-IDs, but they can *all* have the same LSP-ID.
> 
> To uniquely identify a TE-Tunnel LSP. you need *all* of the fields in
> the session and sender-template objects.  That why we carry those in
> LSP ping.
> 
> ...George
> 
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