Subject: Re: CR-LDP

From: Yoshihiro Ohba <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 14:11:46 +0900

>> I don't think there is any standard draft proposing to distribute
>> LSPID information to/from the global entity.  But is there a
>> situation where the supposed scenario is useful?
 > This could be useful in the case when lots of traffic is meant for the same
 > destination. If we make the traffic go thru the same LSP that would reduce
 > load on the switch as it will have less no. of LSPs in the state
 > information. This case is the same as "Merging" of LSPs.

Then, you may want to use RSVP-TE rather than CR-LDP for that purpose, 
since RSVP-TE optionally supports merging. 

Yoshihiro Ohba

 > Santosh