MPLS Label Distribution Protocol, LDP – Part 7 (CR-LDP)

Before discussing the CE-LDP, lets explaint “constraint-based routing” term. “Contraint-based Routing” is the routing which in which the routing process is done according to some constraints. Both QoS-based routing and policy-based routing belong to Contraint-based Routing. As you know these routing include QoS constraints or policy constraints. CR-LDP (constraint-based LDP) contains extensions for LDP. And with these extensions, Contraint-based Routing is supported on LDP. In other words, Contraint-based Routing brings Traffic Engineering(TE) mechanism to the LDP. The additional TLV parameters are new for CR-LDP:

Value		Parameter
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821		LSPID
822		ResCls
503		Optical Session Parameters
800		Explicit Route
801-804		ER-Hop TLVS
810		Traffic Parameters
820		Preemption
823		Route Pinning
910		Optical Interface Type
920		Optical Trail Desc
930		Optical Label
940		Lambada Set

MPLS Label Distribution Protocol, LDP – Part 1 MPLS Label Distribution Protocol, LDP – Part 2 MPLS Label Distribution Protocol, LDP – Part 3 (Configuration on ALU) MPLS Label Distribution Protocol, LDP – Part 4 (ECMP) MPLS Label Distribution Protocol, LDP – Part 5 (Export and Import Policy, Prefix Aggregation) MPLS Label Distribution Protocol, LDP – Part 6 (T-LDP) MPLS Label Distribution Protocol, LDP – Part 7 (CR-LDP) For more information about LDP, T-LDP and CR-LDP, check the related following RFCs…

RFC 5036: LDP Specification
RFC 3815: Definitions of Managed Objects for the MPLS,LDP
RFC 3478: Graceful Restart Mechanism for Label Distribution Protocol
RFC 5443: LDP IGP Synchronization
RFC 7307: LDP Extensions for Multi-Topology
RFC 7361: LDP Extensions for Optimized MAC Address Withdrawal in a H-VPLS
RFC 3212: Constraint-Based LSP Setup using LDP
RFC 3213: Applicability Statement for CR-LDP 
RFC 3214: LSP Modification Using CR-LDP

…YOU CAN REACH ALL THE “MPLS” ARTICLES AND CONFIGURATIONS BELOW… MPLS Basics What is MPLS? Enabling MPLS on Cisco Router MPLS Label Distribution Protocol, LDP MPLS Label Distribution Protocol, LDP – Part 1 MPLS Label Distribution Protocol, LDP – Part 2 MPLS Label Distribution Protocol, LDP – Part 3 (Configuration on ALU) MPLS Label Distribution Protocol, LDP – Part 4 (ECMP) MPLS Label Distribution Protocol, LDP – Part 5 (Export and Import Policy, Prefix Aggregation) MPLS Label Distribution Protocol, LDP – Part 6 (T-LDP) MPLS Label Distribution Protocol, LDP – Part 7 (CR-LDP) MPLS, RSVP-TE MPLS, RSVP-TE – Part 1 MPLS, RSVP-TE – Part 2(Alcatel-Lucent Configuration) MPLS Protection And Restoration MPLS Protection and Restoration – Part 1 MPLS Protection and Restoration – Part 2 (End-to-End Protection, Secondary Paths) MPLS Protection and Restoration – Part 3 (Path Diversity in Secondary Paths) MPLS Protection and Restoration – Part 4 (Local Protection, Fast Reroute) MPLS Protection and Restoration – Part 5 (Fast Reroute Protection Types) MPLS Protection and Restoration – Part 6 (RSVP Objects Used for MPLS Fast Reroute) MPLS Protection and Restoration – Part 7 (Verification Commands on Alcatel-Lucent Routers) MPLS Protection and Restoration – Part 8 (Actions After the Failure) MPLS Protection and Restoration – Part 9 (Convergence Factors) MPLS Protection and Restoration – Part 10 (Juniper Configuration Samples) MPLS Protection and Restoration – Part 11 (Juniper Configuration Samples) MPLS Protection and Restoration – Part 12 (Juniper Configuration Samples) MPLS Protection and Restoration – Part 13 (Juniper Configuration Samples)