Re: [mpls-linux-general] generation of the label release message

[Abhijit G. <gab...@ee...>]

amit goyal wrote :

>I have a doubt regarding generation of Label release
>message in response of withdraw message ,
>Its like this:
>If upstream receives wildcard FEC in the withdraw
>message then will it send individual release message
>for each of the FEC's for which it has received labels
>from the down stream LSR or it will send a single
>release message with the same FEC and label TLV
>combination as of the withdraw message.

Here sending a release message with wild card FEC may be a bit problematic
for the end which sent the withdraw message. (Note that this is not
incorrect if one looks at the specifications. But it won't be guaranteed
that this is interoperable.) The better idea would be to send FEC vector
corrosponding to the released FECs.

--a