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show mpls ip binding
MP-614
Cisco IOS Multiprotocol Label Switching Command Reference
January 2010
Table 97 describes the significant fields shown in the display.
Cisco 7500 Series Example Only
The following sample output shows summary information about the label bindings learned by LDP:
Router# show mpls ip binding summary
Total number of prefixes: 53
Generic label bindings
assigned learned
prefixes in labels out labels
53 53 51
ATM label bindings summary
interface total active local remote Bwait Rwait IFwait
ATM1/0.8 47 47 40 7 0 0 0
Router#
Table 98 describes the significant fields shown in the display.
Ta b l e 97 show mpls ip binding detail Field Descriptions
Field Description
chkpt The status of the checkpointed entry.
add-skipped—Means that the local label is a null label and does not need
to be checkpointed.
added— Means that the checkpoints entry was copied to the backup
Route Processor (RP)
owner The application that created the binding.
owner LDP—Means that LDP created the binding.
owner other—Means that another application created the binding,
possibly Border Gateway protocol (BGP).
Advertised to The LSRs that received the local label binding.
inuse or stale The status of the label.
inuse—Indicates that the outgoing label is in use for MPLS forwarding,
that is, it is installed in the MPLS forwarding table (LFIB).
stale—Indicates a label that is no longer in use. This happens when an
LDP session is lost and the routers begin a graceful restart. Then the
remote label bindings are marked stale.
Ta b l e 98 show mpls ip binding summary Field Descriptions (Cisco 7500 Series Example)
Field Description
Total number of
pr
efixes
Number of destinations for which the LSR has label bindings.
Generic label bindings Indicates the start of summary information for “generic” label bindings.
Gen
eric labels are used for MPLS forwarding on all interface types except
MPLS ATM interfaces.
prefixes Number of destinations for which the LSR has a generic label binding.