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RFC2961 BUNDLE message

  • From: "Feng, Mark" <m_feng@trillium.com>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:07:49 -0700

One thing it saves is the IP header, since multiple RSVP message will be
packed into one.

If the question is, by the Bundle message itself, helps the scaling problem.
IMO, not a whole lot.

- Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arvind, K [mailto:arvind@tenornetworks.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 11:47 AM
> To: 'mpls@uu.net'
> Cc: Arvind, K
> Subject: RFC2961 BUNDLE message
> 
> 
> Does the BUNDLE message offer any real benefit in terms of 
> reducing control
> overhead? There seems to be no significant change in the 
> overall amount of
> control traffic that is generated or processed as a result of 
> bundling (even
> though the traffic is bunched together resulting in fewer (but larger)
> messages). Does this mechanism really help in scaling RSVP?  
> Could someone
> throw light on this? Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> Arvind.
>