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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 15:10:33 -0700
  • CC: mpls@UU.NET
  • Organization: Juniper Networks

Yangguang Xu wrote:
> 
> 
> >From RFC 2205 "RSVP takes a "soft state" approach to managing the reservation
> state in routers and hosts. RSVP soft state is created and periodically
> refreshed by Path and Resv messages.  The state is deleted if no matching
> refresh messages arrive before the expiration of a "cleanup timeout" interval."
> 
> The "state" here is data plane state.

No. The "state" here is the control information such as RSVP source,
destination, flowspec, etc. Data plane states are filter entries, FIB,
etc.