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["Joel M. Halpern" <joel@stevecrocker.com>]

I think that there may be a better way to explain this.  There are 
several different factors at work:

1) A received LDP label MUST NOT be used if the neighbor sending the 
label is not the next hop for the FEC.  This condition does not 
require an exact match in the forwarding table.
2) A Received label MUST NOT be used for packets which do not match 
the received FEC.  This condition requires an exact match in the 
forwarding table.

This does allow an implementation to create an exact match entry in 
the forwarding table to select packets that use the label, even if 
routing provided a shorter prefix.  This does allow one to use /32 
entries without injecting those /32s into the actual routing 
protocol.  However, the most common uses of .LDP (even with /32s) 
will result in the entries being in the forwarding table anyway.

Another way to look at the condition above is that condition 1 is a 
restriction on the use of a received label advertisement.  LPM check 
is suitable.  Condition 2 is a restriction on the contents of the 
Forwarding-Table-to-Next-hop-label-forwarding-entry that one 
creates.  That must be an exact match.

Yours,
Joel M. Halpern

At 07:02 AM 4/11/2006, Eric W Gray wrote:
>The implementation MUST do an exact match, as downstream LSRs will 
>forward based
>only on the label.  Because they do not (typically) perform a route 
>look-up on the label
>encapsulated inner IP packet, there is no reason to expect a 
>downstream LSR to be able
>to separate a flow based on longest match when the routes further 
>downstream are distinct
>for "longer matches".
>
>Dutta, Pranjal wrote:
>
>>
>>Hi Eric,
>>           As per RFC 3036 Label mapping receive procedures, when Ru
>>received a label mapping from Rd for a FEC x, Ru need to find an "exact"
>>match of the FEC x(IPv4/V6 prefix) in its route table. In Inter-IGP-area
>>or inter-AS case the routes from Rd would be summarized to Ru and in
>>such a case Ru MAY not find the exact match for such FEC x. In terms of
>>RFC 3036 then Ru MAY not find exact match for the FEC received from Rd
>>in its route table and no further action at Ru. My question was why Ru
>>can't we do a longest prefix match for the FEC x as LPM means it can be
>>reached by a downstream Rd?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Pranjal
>



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