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

  • From: Yangguang Xu <xuyg@lucent.com>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 18:31:10 -0400
  • CC: mpls@UU.NET
  • Organization: Lucent Technologies, Inc.


> >
> > >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.

There was no distinction about these two states in RFC 2205. So I guess it then
can be interpreted differently to serve different purposes. 

Yangguang