Re: Questions on OSPF extensions for TE

["S Kalipatnapu" <skalipat@starpower.net>]

Bart,

Section 2.5.5  on Traffic Engineering Metric, states the following:
>
>The Traffic Engineering Metric sub-TLV specifies the link metric for
> traffic engineering purposes. This metric may be different than the
> standard OSPF link metric.
>
The "may be" in the last sentence may be indicating what you are looking
for.

Regards,
--Sitaram

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bart Batsleer WX22 54174" <bart.batsleer@alcatel.be>
To: <ccamp@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:27 AM
Subject: Questions on OSPF extensions for TE


> Hello,
>
> I have 2 questions related to the draft-katz-yeung-ospf-traffic-05
>
> 1) In case the traffic engineering metric sub-tlv is not present in the
> link
> tlv, does the traffic engineering SPF calculation have to rely on the
> standard OSPF link metric ?
>
> 2) The behaviour is stated in the corresponding isis draft
> (draft-ietf-isis-traffic-02), is there a
> reason why this is not stated in the OSPF draft ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bart
>
>
>