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[Rahul Aggarwal <rahul@redback.com>]

Hi Paresh,

Please see response inline:

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Paresh Patil wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> We have implemented Graceful Restart mechanism for LDP as per RFC 3478
> (section 3.1). Has anybody implemented the same using alternative
> procedures (section 3.2)? Are there any implementation issues with this
> method.
> 

The implementation that I am best versed with uses section 3.1. 

The only issue with section 3.2 can be that the upstream nbrs of or the
restarting router will have to update the out label in their forwarding
plane. This can cause a disruption in forwarding. Depending on the
forwarding architecture this disruption can be just a few packets or more.
Other than this section 3.2 works just fine and can even be simpler to
implement than section 3.1. Ofcourse it requires as many unallocated
labels as allocated labels. This may be considered as an overkill in some
cases. 

> Is there any implementation survey underway for the LDP graceful
> restart?
> 

No. 

rahul

> Regards,
> Paresh Patil
> MBT (COE-Embedded)
> 
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