Re: [mpls-tp] Demultiplexing to BFD sessions

Hi Mukund,

I also have the same question about this.

As to the BFD discriminator, IMHO, we should keep using it as it be, because 
it may not be enough to demultiplex the BFD session only based on the label, 
this is especially true when there are more than two BFD sessions over the 
LSP.

BTW, it seems that explicit null label distribution is not excluded (and 
IMHO it should be excluded as PHP) in MPLS-TP (do I miss something?) , and 
it is one of the issues that LSP-Ping for BFD session bootstrap is trying to 
reslove.

Best regards,
Mach

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From: "Mukund Mani" <mukund.mani@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 2:24 PM
To: <mpls-tp@ietf.org>
Subject: [mpls-tp] Demultiplexing to BFD sessions

> Hi TP-Group
> **
> *draft-ietf-mpls-tp-lsp-ping-bfd-procedures-00 *states in Section 3
>
> "When using BFD over MPLS-TP LSPs, the BFD discriminator MUST either be
> signaled via LSP-Ping or be statically configured."
>
> *draft-ietf-mpls-tp-bfd-cc-cv-00 *states in Section 3.5.6
>
> "MPLS labels at peer MEPs are used to provide context for the received BFD
> packets."
>
> As I understand from the statement in the CC/CV draft, since discriminator
> values are not required for demultiplexing to the BFD session anymore, we
> will not need LSP Ping to bootstrap BFD session for TP LSP.
>
> But *draft-ietf-mpls-tp-lsp-ping-bfd-procedures-00 *specifies that LSP 
> Ping
> can also be used to signal BFD discriminator.
>
> So is LSP Ping still really needed in the context of BFD over MPLS-TP?
>
> Also as a part of MPLS-TP OAM could somebody explain why such a deviation 
> is
> taken from the BFD-BASE mode of demultiplexing which even BFD-MPLS uses
> (discriminator values instead of MPLS labels), but MPLS-TP goes in for
> demultiplexing using labels....
>
> Could somebody please clarify this..?
>
>
> With Regards
> Mukund
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mpls-tp-bfd-cc-cv-00>
>

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