Re: A philosophical question about FA and FA-LSP

["Igor Bryskin" <ibryskin@movaz.com>]

Hi,

My question was what is (if any) special about FA TE link apart from the
fact that it is dynamically created/destroyed?

Igor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kireeti Kompella" <kireeti@juniper.net>
To: "Igor Bryskin" <ibryskin@movaz.com>
Cc: <yakov@juniper.net>; <ccamp@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: A philosophical question about FA and FA-LSP


> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Igor Bryskin wrote:
>
> > I have a question to Kireti and Yakov.
> ...
> > My question is:  can I draw a conclusion from the above that it is
> > not required anymore for an FA to be advertised into the same
> > instance of IGP-TE as was used for the advertising of the FA-LSP
> > constituent TE links.
>
> Correct -- LSPs created in IGP A can be advertised as TE links in IGP B.
> This can be used (say) for inter-area signaling.
>
> > In other words, if an LSP created by one instance of the control
> > plane (say, L1VPN Provider) and advertised as a TE link into another
> > instance of the control plane (say, VPN), would/should such TE link
> > be treated anyhow different from the LSP advertised into the same
> > instance of control plane.
>
> The advertisement into the VPN control plane is just a TE link for the
> VPN IGP-TE.
>
> Kireeti.
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>