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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 10:43:31 -0700
  • CC: mpls@UU.NET
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neil.2.harrison@bt.com wrote:


>>
> 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?
> 


When a router times out a neighbor (hello messages), or the instance 
number in a neighbor's hello has changed, it means that the neighbor's 
control has restarted. If the data link is still up and running, the 
router and the neighbor can use the procedure defined in the draft to 
recover.

Hope this will help.

- Ping