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[abhay <abhay@multitech.co.in>]

Hi Tom

   I see what you mean,implementations keep changing for the better,;).

   Regards,

   Abhay

"Thomas D. Nadeau" wrote:

At 09:51 AM 7/16/2001 +0530, abhay wrote:

>Hi,
>
>   There are two sides of the coin here.Walking through the T.E MIB
> requires Chang's indexing idea
>
>   But to have a LSP Management with the T.E MIB we can have the original
> order of indices as mentioned
>
>   by the authors.One way to achieve this is  by actually having Ingress
> Based Pointers to the original
>
>   Tunnel Table Entries in the  MIB.In this way,we can get the specified
> management functionality and also
>
>   satisfy the indices rules in the MIB.
>
>   Moreover,the RSVP / CR-LDP Signaling protocols have a small
> difference,the difference being the
>
>   tunnel instance.So,if one is having both CR-LDP and RSVP operating in a
> disjoint manner ,we may not
>
>   consider how we have the Tunnel head configuration.
>
>   As I understand that Cisco's implementation has a source address NULL
> or zero to identify tunnel
>
>   head configurations.

         No, we follow the paradigm I described earlier where the
tunnelInstance set to 0 to signify the head interface.

         --Tom