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Attributes of a Label Binding

  • From: "chetan kumar s" <chetan.kumar@wipro.com>
  • Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:59:52 +0530 (IST)
  • cc: mpls@UU.NET

On Mon, 7 May 2001 suchauhan@hss.hns.com wrote:

> 
> 
> hi all!
>      referring to section 3.5 of RFC 3031;-

Hi Sumit,
	The label attribitues that are reffered here are attributes
associated with the label (inturn to the LSP), this is not associated to
the FEC. It could be Hop Count OR Path Vector..

Thanks
Chetan S

> 
> what are these attributes being talked about that may be learned from
> the downstream LSR for a particular bind. To me if anything is
> specific to a binding for a particular FEC then it should be a part of
> the FEC itself i.e. it should be one of the FEC elements that defines
> that packet class. I am not able to appreciate the need for any other
> information that needs to exist and be exchanged for a binding.
> 
> regards
> sumit
> 
>