Furthermore, I was also wondering, if the bandwidth constraints are upper bounds, what does the traffic distribution typically look like at an LSR? We're interested in traffic within a single service provider, non-Internet traffic. Perhaps most service providers set aside some (dynamic?) pool for Internet traffic, while making commitments to customer's inter-site traffic. Thanks and best regards On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Saqib Ilyas <msaqib@gmail.com> wrote:
William Thanks for the reply. You say that LSPs are not static unless you use TE tunnels. Are you referring to the staticness in terms of the path or in the amount of bandwidth reserved on each link along a fixed path determined at the time of signalling? Isn't a bandwidth constrained LSP always a TE tunnel? Thanks and best regards
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:41 PM, William McCall <william.mccall@gmail.com>wrote:
Well, yes (if you don't count the additional traffic of signalling/routing protocols, label imposition, etc) but consider the fact that topologies change and routing will tend to change the total traffic handled through a node. LSPs are not static unless you use TE tunnels. Remember that labels are Forwarding Equivalency Classes and that translates into subnets (whether they're subnets in a L3 vpn or part of the P network) and the routing is still handled through an IGP or BGP.
HTH
--WJM IV
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Saqib Ilyas <msaqib@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone In the context of a single service provider network running MPLS, if a number of bandwidth constrained LSPs are passing through a particular node and the sum of the bandwidth constraints for the LSPs is X Mb/s, then is X the upper bound on the traffic through that node, or is it sometimes exceeded as well? Thanks and best regards
-- Muhammad Saqib Ilyas PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering Lahore University of Management Sciences
-- Muhammad Saqib Ilyas PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering Lahore University of Management Sciences