R3303-HP HSR6800 Routers MPLS Configuration Guide

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With MPLS TE, a network administrator can eliminate network congestion by creating some LSPs and
congestion bypass nodes. Special offline tools are also available for the traffic analysis performed when
the number of LSPs is large.
Basic concepts
LSP tunnel—On an LSP, after packets are labeled at the ingress node, the packets are forwarded based
on label. The traffic is transparent to the transits nodes on the LSP. In this sense, an LSP can be regarded
as a tunnel.
MPLS TE tunnel—Rerouting and transmission over multiple paths might involve multiple LSP tunnels. A set
of such LSP tunnels is called a TE tunnel.
MPLS TE implementation
MPLS TE accomplishes the following functions:
• Static Constraint-based Routed LSP (CR-LSP) processing—Creates and removes static CR-LSPs. The
bandwidth of a static CR-LSP must be configured manually.
• Dynamic CR-LSP processing—Handles three types of CR-LSPs: basic CR-LSPs, backup CR-LSPs, and
fast rerouted CR-LSPs.
Static CR-LSP processing is simple. Dynamic CR-LSP processing is more complex and involves four
phrases: advertising TE attributes, calculating paths, establishing paths, and forwarding packets.
Advertising TE attributes
MPLS TE must be aware of dynamic TE attributes of each link on the network, which is achieved by
extending link state-based IGPs, such as OSPF and IS-IS.
OSPF and IS-IS extensions add to link states such TE attributes as link bandwidth, color, among which
maximum reservable link bandwidth and non-reserved bandwidth with a particular priority are most
important.
Each node collects the TE attributes of all links on all routers within the local area or at the same level to
build up a TE database (TEDB).
Calculating paths
Link state-based routing protocols use SPF to calculate the shortest path to each network node.
In MPLS TE, the CSPF algorithm is used to calculate the shortest, TE compliant path to a node. It is derived
from SPF and makes calculations based on the following conditions:
• Constraints on the LSP to be set up with respect to bandwidth, color, setup/holding priority, explicit
path and other constraints. They are configured at the LSP ingress.
• TEDB
CSPF first prunes TE attribute incompliant links from the TEDB and then performs SPF calculation to
identify the shortest path to an LSP egress.
Establishing paths
When setting up LSP tunnels, you can use two types of signaling: CR-LDP and RSVP-TE. Both can carry
constraints such as LSP bandwidth, some explicit route information, and color and deliver the same
function.
They are different in that CR-LDP establishes LSPs using TCP while RSVP-TE uses raw IP.