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["Feng, Mark" <mark.feng@intel.com>]

I believe the processing are the same. I think you should read the few
sections before the quoted paragraph in the RSVP spec.

Hope this helps.

- Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: chetan kumar s [mailto:chetan.kumar@wipro.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 9:13 PM
> To: mpls@UU.NET
> Subject: ERO processing
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 	While processing ERO object, there seems to discrepancy in the
> statements made in CR-LDP (RFC 3212) and RSVPTE (3209) to 
> process initial
> ERO. CR-LDP considers 'L' bit and RSVPTE do not consider 'L' 
> bit. What is
> the rationale behind this, I would say RSVPTE also should 
> consider L bit.
> There were couple of mails on this in the mailing list but 
> there were no
> fitting answers. Can the authors pls clarify..
> 
> 
> RCF 3212:
> 
>       1. The node receiving the Label Request Message must first
>          evaluate the first ER-Hop.  If the L bit is not set in the
>          first ER-Hop and if the node is not part of the abstract node
>          described by the first ER-Hop, it has received the message in
>          error, and should return a "Bad Initial ER-Hop Error" status.
> 
> RCF 3209:
> 
>   1) The node receiving the RSVP message MUST first evaluate the first
>       subobject.  If the node is not part of the abstract 
> node described
>       by the first subobject, it has received the message in error and
>       SHOULD return a "Bad initial subobject" error.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Chetan S
> 
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