Subject: RE: Exact match

From: Rahul Kasralikar <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:01:52 -0700

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Ashwood-Smith [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 6:07 AM
> To: [email-masked]'
> Subject: Re: Exact match
> 
> 
> > 2. Can we run LDP across AS boundary domains? (CRLDP?
> > RSVP?)
> 
>   CR-LDP/RSVP-TE yes but the TE mechanism accross the boundary is not
> yet standardized. 
> 
>   LDP yes but if the addresses are aggregated you have to terminate
> the LSP at the border and restart a new one into the next AS 
> as you pointed out. This requires L2=>L3=>L2 which is less than 
> desirable. 
> 

I don't think we have to do L2=>L3=>L2. We could do intra-AS
label(s) and inter-AS label (in the label stack). The boundary routers
could use inter-AS labels.

Thanks,

Rahul Kasralikar

>   I suspect all of these issues will be topics to study 
> next year.
> 
>   Peter
>