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FW: Question

  • From: "Paul Tasillo" <Paul.tasillo@tivoli.com>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:09:55 -0400
  • Importance: Normal



Paul Tasillo wrote:
>
> It can be signaled, but you can provision with CLI and SNMP (when the MIBs
> are supported). Isn't that what the drafts describe?
> -Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mpls@UU.NET [mailto:owner-mpls@UU.NET]On Behalf Of David
> Charlap
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 10:44 AM
> To: Manal Afify
> Cc: mpls@UU.NET
> Subject: Re: Question
>
> Manal Afify wrote:
> >
> > As a general question:
> >
> > How does an LSR know when to swap, pop, or push a label...does it have
> > to be provisioned?
>
> It's not provisioned.  It is signalled.  The routers dynamically
> configure themselves to do this in reponse to the signalling packets
> (LDP or RSVP) that are used to establish the LSP in the first place.
>
> -- David