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

  • From: neil.2.harrison@bt.com
  • Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 18:12:56 +0100
  • Cc: mpls@UU.NET

Ping Pan replied 15 August 2001 14:34
> > Can you please explain (i) what causes such RSVP nodal 
> re-starts in the 1st
> > place 

> 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.
> 
Thanks Ping.....but when I looked at the site the topic is route-flaps.
Which I can understand for LDP stability, since this is dependent on IGP/BGP
stability.  But I failed to understand why you consider this the cause of
RSVP-TE restarts.  I would have thought other mechanisms would have been the
key cause, which are (RSVP) protocol specific....maybe error events taking
out 3 hello messages perhaps?  Can you clarify what I am missing here?

regards, Neil