Re: [mpls-linux-general] Question regarding MPLS tunnels and tunnel command is not working.

[Siddhardha N. G. <ga...@gm...>]

Yes i think you are right. I got little confused with RSVP-TE tunnels. I
will do little more study on this.

Any update on tunnel command ?


On 12/9/05, James R. Leu <jl...@mi...> wrote:
>
> I think you are talking about RSVP-TE signaled 'tunnels'  MPLS Linux does
> not yet have a RSVP-TE implementation.
>
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 03:39:19PM -0500, Siddhardha N. Garige wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to understand MPLS tunnel concept  and according to RFC
> 3812, an
> > explicitly routed LSP (ERLSP) is referred to as an MPLS tunnel. I am
> > planning to connecting my router (CE) to a PE on a T1 link using MPLS
> > tunnel. I have only source and destination nodes  and i am setting up a
> LSP
> > in between them. I dont have any intermediate nodes. Destination node i=
s
> in
> > one hop reach. If i make this LSP into a tunnel will it be conceptually
> > right?
> >
> > My understanding of Explicit routing is you have various paths availabl=
e
> > from source to destination and you specify a specific path. Since i hav=
e
> > only one path here, it is no different from regular LSP. Can someone
> explain
> > to me PLs?
> >
> > Also, I compiled and installed MPLS kernel and i was able to setup LSP
> in
> > between two linux boxes. I am trying to create a tunnel using mpls
> tunnel
> > command and i am having some trouble. Here is a screen shot..
> >
> > root@darkstar:/home/sid# mplsversion
> > 1.950
> >
> > root@darkstar:/usr/sbin# mpls nhlfe add key 0
> > NHLFE entry key 0x00000003 mtu 0 propagate_ttl
> >          (0 bytes, 0 pkts)
> > root@darkstar:/usr/sbin# mpls tunnel add dev eth0 nhlfe 0x3
> > Option "add" is unknown, try "mpls -help".
> >
> > any help?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sid
>
> --
> James R. Leu
> jl...@mi...
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