Mpls lsp tracert, Configuring bfd for lsps, Configuration prerequistes – H3C Technologies H3C SR8800 User Manual

Page 38

Advertising
background image

27

Task Command

Remarks

Use MPLS LSP ping to check the
connectivity of an MPLS LSP.

ping lsp [ -a source-ip | -c count |
-exp exp-value | -h ttl-value | -m
wait-time | -r reply-mode | -s

packet-size | -t time-out | -v ] *

ipv4 dest-addr mask-length
[ destination-ip-addr-header ]

Available in any view

MPLS LSP tracert

MPLS LSP tracert is for locating LSP errors. It consecutively sends the MPLS echo requests along the LSP to
be inspected, with the TTL increasing from 1 to a specific value. Then, each hop along the LSP will return

an MPLS echo reply to the ingress due to TTL timeout. Thus, the ingress can collect the information of each

hop along the LSP, so as to locate the failed node. You can also use MPLS LSP tracert to collect the

important information of each hop along the LSP, such as the label allocated.
To locate errors of an LSP:

Task Command

Remarks

Perform MPLS LSP tracert to locate
an MPLS LSP error.

tracert lsp [ -a source-ip | -exp
exp-value | -h ttl-value | -r

reply-mode |-t time-out ] * ipv4
dest-addr mask-length

[ destination-ip-addr-header ]

Available in any view

Configuring BFD for LSPs

You can configure BFD for an LSP to detect the connectivity of the LSP. After the configuration, a BFD

session will be established between the ingress and egress of the LSP, and the ingress will add the label

for the FEC to into a BFD control packet, forward the BFD control packet along the LSP to the egress, and

determine the status of the LSP according to the reply received. Upon detecting an LSP failure, BFD
triggers a traffic switchover.
A BFD session for LSP connectivity detection can be static or dynamic.

Static: If you specify the local and remote discriminator values by using the discriminator keyword
when configuring the bfd enable command, the BFD session will be established with the specified

discriminator values. Such a BFD session is used to detect the connectivity of a pair of LSPs in

opposite directions (one from local to remote, and the other from remote to local) between two
routers.

Dynamic: If you do not specify the local and remote discriminator values when configuring the bfd
enable command, the MPLS LSP ping will be run automatically to negotiate the discriminator values

and then the BFD session will be established based on the negotiated discriminator values. Such a

BFD session is used for connectivity detection of an LSP from the local router to the remote router.

Configuration prerequistes

The BFD session parameters are those configured on the loopback interface whose IP address is

configured as the MPLS LSR ID, and the BFD packets will use the MPLS LSR ID as the source address.

Therefore, before enabling BFD for an LSP, you need to configure an IP address for the loopback

interface and configure the IP address as the MPLS LSR ID. You can also configure BFD session

Advertising