Configuring cooperation of rsvp-te and bfd, Tuning cr-lsp setup, Configuration prerequisites – H3C Technologies H3C SR8800 User Manual

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Configuring Cooperation of RSVP-TE and BFD

On an MPLS TE network, if a link between neighboring LSRs fails, the corresponding MPLS TE tunnel will

fail to forward packets. MPLS TE itself cannot detect a link failure in time. To address this issue, you can
enable Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for RSVP-TE on the two peers of an RSVP-TE tunnel. Then,

MPLS TE can be quickly aware of link failures between the peers, ensuring that data can be switched

from the main path to the backup path.
To configure BFD for an RSVP-TE-enabled interface:

Step Command

Remarks

1.

Enter system view.

system-view

N/A

2.

Enter the view of an MPLS
RSVP-TE enabled interface.

interface interface-type
tunnel-number

N/A

3.

Enable BFD on the RSVP-TE

enabled interface.

mpls rsvp-te bfd enable

Disabled by default

Tuning CR-LSP setup

A CR-LSP is established through the signaling protocol based on the path calculated by CSPF using TEDB

and constraints. MPLS TE can affect CSPF calculation in many ways to determine the path that a CR-LSP

can traverse.

Configuration prerequisites

The configuration tasks described in this section are about CSPF of MPLS TE. They must be used in

conjunction with CSPF and the dynamic signal protocol (CR-LDP or RSVP-TE). Before performing them, be
aware of each configuration objective and its impact on your system.

Configuration procedure

Configuring the tie breaker in CSPF

CSPF only calculates the shortest path to the end of a tunnel. If multiple paths are present with the same

metric, only one of them is selected. Tie-breaking methods, in the descending order of selection priority,

include: selecting a path with the lowest bandwidth usage ratio (the used bandwidth to the maximum

reservable link bandwidth), selecting a path with the highest bandwidth usage ratio (the used bandwidth
to the maximum reserved link bandwidth), and selecting a path randomly.
To configure the CSPF tie-breaking method:

Step Command

Remarks

1.

Enter system view.

system-view

N/A

2.

Enter MPLS view.

mpls

N/A

3.

Specify the tie breaker that a

tunnel uses to select a path
when multiple paths with the

same metric are present on

the current node.

mpls te tie-breaking { least-fill |
most-fill | random }

Optional.
The random keyword applies by
default.

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