Re: draft-ietf-l3vpn-rt-constrain-01.txt

Robert Raszuk <raszuk@cisco.com> Wed, 06 October 2004 09:44 UTC

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Hi Sylvia,

If I am interpreting your quiestion right - yes A is possible. In fact 
stay tuned for more details on A alone. I have work in progress trying 
to document A a bit in more detail.

Thx,
R.

 > Spice Sylvia wrote:
 >
> Hello folks
> 
> in the draft, given that AS#RT# froms a NLRI,
> 
> a. Is it possible to have only the AS#RT#s avaliable
> on a node and based on the fact that someone does an
> import of that RT#, the prefixes should be fetched?
> (that is we only send AS#RT# to peers via BGP and when
> group membership/VPN membership is signaled, the
> prefixes are imported)
> 
> b. If (a) is not feasable for whatever reasons  (like
> time to fetch prefixes etc), and assuming that
> AS#RT#prefix# are all present on the peer, can we
> assume that only when a peer of the node imports a
> particular AS#RT#, will the corresponding forwarding
> element/label be inserted in the FIB?
> 
> In other words, other than the benefits of TE from
> RSVP-TE, can a or b be used to setup signaled LSPs?
> 
> -brgds
> Sylvia
> 
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