[nsp] MPLS Manual LSP Creation

[Eric Osborne]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:24:59 -0500, <Kashif.Khawaja at broadwing.com> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: eosborne at cisco.com [mailto:eosborne at cisco.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 11:10 AM
> To: Khawaja, Kashif; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [nsp] MPLS Manual LSP Creation
>
> http://www/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1829/products_feature_guide09186
> a008010dd41.html
>
> But I'm curious - why do you want to do this?  Static labels are nice in
>
> the lab, but in production you have things like link flaps and other
> outages to be concerned with.  Static labels are bad in the same way
> that
> running a network built out of static routes is bad.
>
>>>> no argument there. This is one of the features we want to be able to
> have at our disposal if needed.
>>>> One more question, can I make the ingress LSR announce these static
> LSPs into the IGP? I see that if I were to use the >>> traffic
> engineering features with RSVP/etc. I could use the autoroute announce
> command to accomplish that. How do I
>>>> achieve it with static LSPs?

You can't.  Static labels are more like LDP, where a label is a thing that  
maps to an IGP route, than TE, where you signal a new path and build an  
LSP to support that path.



eric