Network Working Group D. Awduche
Request for Comments: 3209 Movaz Networks, Inc.
Category: Standards Track L. Berger
D. Gan
Juniper Networks, Inc.
T. Li
Procket Networks, Inc.
V. Srinivasan
Cosine Communications, Inc.
G. Swallow
Cisco Systems, Inc.
December 2001
RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels
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This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
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Abstract
This document describes the use of RSVP (Resource Reservation
Protocol), including all the necessary extensions, to establish
label-switched paths (LSPs) in MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching).
Since the flow along an LSP is completely identified by the label
applied at the ingress node of the path, these paths may be treated
as tunnels. A key application of LSP tunnels is traffic engineering
with MPLS as specified in RFC 2702.
We propose several additional objects that extend RSVP, allowing the
establishment of explicitly routed label switched paths using RSVP as
a signaling protocol. The result is the instantiation of label-
switched tunnels which can be automatically routed away from network
failures, congestion, and bottlenecks.
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Contents
1 Introduction .......................................... 3
1.1 Background ............................................. 4
1.2 Terminology ............................................ 6
2 Overview .............................................. 7
2.1 LSP Tunnels and Traffic Engineered Tunnels ............. 7
2.2 Operation of LSP Tunnels ............................... 8
2.3 Service Classes ........................................ 10
2.4 Reservation Styles ..................................... 10
2.4.1 Fixed Filter (FF) Style ................................ 10
2.4.2 Wildcard Filter (WF) Style ............................. 11
2.4.3 Shared Explicit (SE) Style ............................. 11
2.5 Rerouting Traffic Engineered Tunnels ................... 12
2.6 Path MTU ............................................... 13
3 LSP Tunnel related Message Formats ..................... 15
3.1 Path Message ........................................... 15
3.2 Resv Message ........................................... 16
4 LSP Tunnel related Objects ............................. 17
4.1 Label Object ........................................... 17
4.1.1 Handling Label Objects in Resv messages ................ 17
4.1.2 Non-support of the Label Object ........................ 19
4.2 Label Request Object ................................... 19
4.2.1 Label Request without Label Range ...................... 19
4.2.2 Label Request with ATM Label Range ..................... 20
4.2.3 Label Request with Frame Relay Label Range ............. 21
4.2.4 Handling of LABEL_REQUEST .............................. 22
4.2.5 Non-support of the Label Request Object ................ 23
4.3 Explicit Route Object .................................. 23
4.3.1 Applicability .......................................... 24
4.3.2 Semantics of the Explicit Route Object ................. 24
4.3.3 Subobjects ............................................. 25
4.3.4 Processing of the Explicit Route Object ................ 28
4.3.5 Loops .................................................. 30
4.3.6 Forward Compatibility .................................. 30
4.3.7 Non-support of the Explicit Route Object ............... 31
4.4 Record Route Object .................................... 31
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