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[Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-pan-lsp-ping-00.txt]

  • From: George Swallow <swallow@cisco.com>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:15:21 -0400
  • cc: mpls-list <mpls@UU.NET>, mpls-ops <mpls-ops@mplsrc.com>

> Shouldn't the mechanism be generalized? Possibly made independant of the
> signaling mechanism? 

I don't think so.  The mechanism is intentionally tied to the control
plane to ensure that the source is properly informed even if the
reverse data path may be broken.  I wouldn't want to propose a general
mechanism for this.

> Don't LSPs that are established by LDP (or foo) need
> this functionality, too?
 
Yes.  But one size may not fit all.

> Also, wouldn't this functionality also be useful for non-MPLS tunnels?

Ditto.

...George

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