On 5/10/2012 4:02 PM, Remco Bressers wrote: > Dear list, > > At first, excuse my ignorance. I'm trying to get used to configuring MPLS on > Brocade MLX/XMR series and all is working fine, but after reading through the > manual i still have a question that is unanswered at the moment. > We are operating a network of 4 XMR routers in a ring topology with routed > interfaces pointing to each-other. On these interfaces, i enabled ldp as > follows : > > router mpls > policy > traffic-eng ospf > mpls-interface ve9 > ldp-enable > mpls-interface ve92 > ldp-enable > ! > > Local, and remote VLL's are working perfectly. The manual is referring to > configuring LSP's which you then use in the VPLS or VLL configuration to > determine your path (vpls). I never used that before and it still is working. > What is the actual advantage of configuring LSP's and using them in your VLL > or VPLS configuration? I don't seem to understand it fully. If someone can > explain it in a more basic way, i'd be very grateful. >
Traffic Engineering. LDP uses the IGP for path selection. TE using manually defined LSPs can have explicitly defined paths among other attributes/features. /Eric _______________________________________________ foundry-nsp mailing list [email protected] http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
