Non-Penultimate Hop Popping Behavior and Out-of-Band Mapping for RSVP-TE Label Switched Paths
RFC 6511
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Z. Ali
Request for Comments: 6511 G. Swallow
Category: Standards Track Cisco Systems
ISSN: 2070-1721 R. Aggarwal
Juniper Networks
February 2012
Non-Penultimate Hop Popping Behavior and Out-of-Band Mapping for
RSVP-TE Label Switched Paths
Abstract
There are many deployment scenarios that require an egress Label
Switching Router (LSR) to receive binding of the Resource Reservation
Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) Label Switched Path (LSP) to
an application and a payload identifier using some "out-of-band"
(OOB) mechanism. This document defines protocol mechanisms to
address this requirement. The procedures described in this document
are equally applicable for point-to-point (P2P) and point-to-
multipoint (P2MP) LSPs.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
1.1. Conventions Used in This Document ..........................3
2. RSVP-TE Signaling Extensions ....................................3
2.1. Signaling Non-PHP Behavior .................................3
2.2. Signaling OOB Mapping Indication ...........................5
2.3. Relationship between OOB and Non-PHP Flags .................6
2.4. Egress Procedure for Label Binding .........................6
3. Security Considerations .........................................7
4. IANA Considerations .............................................7
4.1. Attribute Flags for LSP Attributes Object ..................7
4.2. New RSVP Error Sub-Code ....................................8
5. Acknowledgements ................................................8
6. References ......................................................8
6.1. Normative References .......................................8
6.2. Informative References .....................................9
1. Introduction
When Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) is
used for applications like Multicast Virtual Private Network (MVPN)
[RFC6513] and Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) [RFC4761], an egress
Label Switching Router (LSR) receives the binding of the RSVP-TE
Label Switched Path (LSP) to an application and a payload identifier
using an "out-of-band" (OOB) mechanism (e.g., Border Gateway Protocol
(BGP)). In such cases, the egress LSR cannot make correct forwarding
decisions until such OOB mapping information is received.
Furthermore, in order to apply the binding information, the egress
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