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[mpls] Is it possible to create FEC with multiple/disparateprefixes ?

  • From: "James R. Leu" <jleu@mindspring.com>
  • Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 21:32:06 -0500
  • Cc: mpls@ietf.org
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I published a draft back in 2000 that described a technique for accomplishing
something similar to what you're asking for.  It only worked for the LDP DoD
case though.

Google for draft-leu-mpls-ldp-label-aggregation-00

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 03:53:41PM +0530, Dutta, Pranjal wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>                  I would like to know if it is possible to create a
> single FEC for Multiple Prefixes in the routing table and distribute
> across the domain through LDP (preferably for Down Stream Unsolicited
> Mode). One case would be when multiple prefixes that can't be
> aggregated/super netted (by the egress) follow the same path from
> ingress LSR to the egress LSR. Will it be same as FEC aggregation? If it
> is possible then how ingress LSR will know that all such disparate
> prefixes follows the same path till egress and accordingly classifies
> all of them into the same LSP.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
>  
> 
> Pranjal
> 

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