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LSR Self test in Charter

  • From: George Swallow <swallow@cisco.com>
  • Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 14:02:15 -0400
  • cc: "'George Swallow'" <swallow@cisco.com>, mpls@UU.NET, swallow@cisco.com

Dave -

> OK, so you assume on a TTL exhaust, the LSP PING processing in the
> downstream LSR sees the whole label stack of the packet and uniquely checks
> that the label (or absence of label) is correct and if a label there, the
> correct binding between label and FEC exists. aka there is a very tight
> coupling between LSP and PING message processing.

Yes.  But I wouldn't use the word assume.  It needs to be built that
way.

...George

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