MPLS signaling

Paul Khavkine paul at distributel.net
Tue Sep 7 20:26:44 UTC 2004



So most people do manual QoS/bandwidth provisioning ?

I'm looking into this for L2 over MPLS VPN (Martini draft).


Thanx
Paul

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Rump Bryant wrote:

>
>RSVP is commonly used for LSP signaling/setup at least in one of the largest
>tier one's MPLS architecture.  I'm not sure how many large ISPs use e2e QoS
>enforcement (none in my experience with public IP networks).  Several use
>DSCP (actually IP Precedence) at the edge (CPE to ISP edge only).  RSVP-TE
>could be used if there was a need (reserving bandwidth) for e2e QoS
>signaling, or alternatively perhaps Bandwidth Broker
>(http://qbone.internet2.edu/bb/index.shtml) might be employed for the same
>purpose.
>
>
>Bryant Rump
>Advanced Internetworking
>Booz Allen Hamilton
>rump_bryant at bah.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of Paul
>Khavkine
>Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 12:36 PM
>To: nanog at merit.edu
>Subject: MPLS signaling
>
>
>
>
>Hi folks.
>
>
>What is the most common way of doing MPLS signaling for LSP setup and End to
>End QoS enforcement ?
>
>LDP ? RSVP ? BGP-TE  or OSPF-TE ?
>
>Thanx
>Paul
>
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DISTRIBUTEL Communications.
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