RE: Need help with MPLS configuration example

From: Andrew Ramsey (akramsey@juniper.net)
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 14:35:34 EDT


Hi Bala,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bala Subrahmanyam Venkata [mailto:bsubrahm@doradosoftware.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 2:17 PM
> To: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: Need help with MPLS configuration example
>
>
> Andrew-
>
> To interrupt your thread, if you do this (map 3 flows each
> with different
> TOS marking to the same LSP) then you'll end up with ONE LSP
> that carries
> the traffic that you have differentiated via TOS values...do
> you want that
> (some sort of "TOS merge") ?

Why not? Remember that the LSP is an aggregate of multiple flows. The
only thing that you should be concerned with is putting packets from the
*same* flow into different queues.

>The reason is anyway traffic in
> one LSP can be
> mapped to only ONE output queue (via "mpls-cos-map" ).

No, it may be mapped into differnent queues (via "mpls-cos-map")

> If
> this happens then
> the differentiation you made by setting the TOS values is
> lost right ?

No, above

Andy

> Since
> all of them will be put in the same queue.....or am I missing
> something ??
>
>
> /bala
>
>



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