Re: TE MIB (-06.txt) : tunnel instance

[Sonam Thapa <aos824@yahoo.com>]

Thanks Tom.

You have been very helpful!

-aos

--- "Thomas D. Nadeau" <tnadeau@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> >Thank you for your reply. I understand what you
> >are saying and agree that this could be useful.
> >
> >However, if 2 tunnels have the same <ingress,
> egress>
> >but different instance ids, 2 questions come to
> >mind -
> >a) MUST they have the same TunnelIndex?
> 
>          No, definitely not. You can have as many
> tunnels from point A to point B as your network
> will support.
> 
> >b) Besides Ifindexes, does this save anything else
> >    at the egress or the ingress over 2 regular
> >    tunnels between the same <ingress, egress>
> >    assuming one regular LSP is backing up another
> >    and is pre-signalled. Seems to me that this is
> >    equivalent to having tunnels with multiple
> >    instances.
> 
>          Honestly, you can do it either way and
> the MIB will support it; it is really up to your
> implementation to decide. We did this on purpose
> when we designed the MIB so that we could support
> all of the cases I described earlier.
> 
>          --Tom
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >Did I get it wrong?
> >
> >TIA,
> >-aos


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