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[Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-pan-rsvp-te-restart-01.txt]

  • From: Ping Pan <pingpan@juniper.net>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 06:34:07 -0700
  • CC: mpls@UU.NET

neil.2.harrison@bt.com wrote:
> 
> Ping,
> 
> Can you please explain (i) what causes such RSVP nodal re-starts in the 1st
> place 

Neil,

The same cause why routing engine may fail in the network, while data
forwarding is fine. The graceful restart technique is not new, as being
define for IGP and BGP already.

> and (ii) how frequently you see them per reason (I assume they must be
> of some concern to have written this ID)?
>

If you believe the data collected at
http://www.merit.edu/ipma/instability/, network does run into instable
conditions. Our draft is to localize the problem when that happens.

- Ping