The MPLS WG Archive

[Mohit Garg <mohit@ee.iitb.ac.in>]

Namaskar

I think the ingress router will label them as different FECs since they 
have to be treated differently. Actually, there can be very different 
policies for labelling the packets depending on the type of traffic 
engineering that one needs.

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regards,

Mohit Garg
Senior Undergraduate Student
Dept. of Electrical Engg.
IIT Bombay
http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/uma/~mohit/


On 2 Jun 2003, Harish  Kumtakar wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've one question regarding MPLS (Context: MPLS support of 
> DiffServ).
> 
> Consider a scenario where in a client (sender) H1 can send traffic 
> belonging to all classes of service (EF,AF,BE) to a destination 
> D1. And the traffic from H1 has to pass through a MPLS cloud to 
> reach D1. Let us also assume that all the routers in that MPLS 
> domain support DiffServ.
> 
> Ingress router of this MPLS domain, which is attached to H1, has 
> to establish more than one LSPs for the same FEC (desination D1), 
> in order to service the traffic from H1.
> 
> Now my question is, if there are more than one LSPs for the same 
> FEC then how the Ingress router will decide as to which LSP the 
> data packet belongs to since there will be more than one NHLFE 
> entries for the same FEC.
> 
> Wonder if anyone comments on this. TIA.
> 
> Regards,
> -Harish
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