Re: [mpls-linux-general] LDP config... confused!

[James R. L. <jl...@mi...>]

Do you have some other routing protocol running?  LDP out labels only get
installed for FECs that match an existing route entry.

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 04:01:00PM +0100, Sameer Gharat wrote:
> Hello James and all,
> 
> I included a dummy interface with a /32 address and
> tried the procedure over again. It worked!! ... though
> only partially, as it created incoming labels on both
> the hosts that I was working on. But it did not create
> any outgoing labels.
> 
> Any reason, why this should happen?
> 
> thanks in advance!
> 
> cheers,
> Sameer
> 
>  --- "James R. Leu" <jl...@mi...> wrote: > The
> default behavior for zebra-ldp is to only
> > distribute labels for
> > the LSR-ID (this can be changed, but only
> > programitically).  The LSR-ID
> > must be attached to a directly connected interface
> > and must show up as
> > a /32 in the routing table (this is probably a
> > little too strict, I need to
> > tweak these rules).  So the easiest way is to use a
> > 'dummy' interface.
> > Compile your kernel with support for it, then assign
> > a /32 to it through zebra.
> > Configure OSPF to run passive on the dummy
> > interface.  You should then see
> > that LDP distruibutes labels for the /32s.
> > 
> > Jim
> 
> 
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