Cisco IOS XR Multiprotocol Label Switching Configuration Guide, Release 3.4 - Implementing MPLS Traffic Engineering on Cisco IOS XR Software [Cisco IOS XR Software (End-of-Sale)]

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Implementing MPLS Traffic Engineering on Cisco IOS XR Software

Contents

Prerequisites for Implementing Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering

Information About Implementing MPLS Traffic Engineering

Overview of MPLS Traffic Engineering

Benefits of MPLS Traffic Engineering

How MPLS-TE Works

Protocol-Based CLI

Differentiated Services Traffic Engineering

Prestandard DS-TE Mode

IETF DS-TE Mode

Bandwidth Constraint Models

TE Class Mapping

Flooding

Flooding Triggers

Flooding Thresholds

Fast Reroute

MPLS-TE and Fast Reroute over Link Bundles

Generalized MPLS

GMPLS Benefits

GMPLS Support

GMPLS Protection and Restoration

GMPLS Prerequisites

Flexible Name-based Tunnel Constraints

MPLS Traffic Engineering Interarea Tunneling

Interarea Support

Multiarea Support

Loose Hop Expansion

Loose Hop Reoptimization

ABR Node Protection

Fast Reroute Node Protection

MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency

MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency Benefits

MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency Restrictions

MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency Prerequisites

How to Implement Traffic Engineering on Cisco IOS XR Software

Building MPLS-TE Topology

Creating an MPLS-TE Tunnel

Configuring Forwarding over the MPLS-TE Tunnel

Prerequisites

Protecting the MPLS Tunnel with Fast Reroute

Prerequisites

Configuring a Prestandard Diff-Serv TE Tunnel

Prerequisites

Configuring an IETF Diff-Serv TE Tunnel Using RDM

Prerequisites

Configuring an IETF Diff-Serv TE Tunnel Using MAM

Prerequisites

Configuring GMPLS on Cisco IOS XR Software

Configuring IPCC Control Channel Information

Configuring Local and Remote TE Links

Configuring Numbered and Unnumbered Optical TE Tunnels

Configuring LSP Hierarchy

Configuring Border Control Model

Configuring Path Protection

Configuring Flexible Name-based Tunnel Constraints

Assigning Color Names to Numeric Values

Associating Affinity-Names with TE Links

Associating Affinity Constraints for TE Tunnels

Configuring IS-IS to Flood MPLS-TE Link Information

Configuring an OSPF Area of MPLS-TE

Configuring Explicit Paths with ABRs Configured as Loose Addresses

Configuring MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency

Configuration Examples for Cisco MPLS-TE

Configuring Fast Reroute and SONET APS: Example

Building MPLS-TE Topology and Tunnels: Example

Configuring IETF Diff-Serv TE Tunnels: Example

Configuring GMPLS: Example

Configuring Bidirectional Optical Tunnels Using TE Links: Example

Configuring Flexible Name-based Tunnel Constraints: Example

Configuring an Interarea Tunnel: Example

Configuring Forwarding Adjacency: Example

Configuring MPLS-TE and Fast Reroute over Link Bundles: Example

Additional References

Related Documents

Standards

MIBs

RFCs

Technical Assistance

Implementing MPLS Traffic Engineering on Cisco IOS XR Software

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a standards-based solution driven by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that was devised to convert the Internet and IP backbones from best-effort networks into business-class transport mediums.

MPLS, with its label switching capabilities, eliminates the need for an IP route look-up and creates a virtual circuit (VC) switching function, allowing enterprises the same performance on their IP-based network services as with those delivered over traditional networks such as Frame Relay or Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).

MPLS traffic engineering (MPLS-TE) software enables an MPLS backbone to replicate and expand upon the TE capabilities of Layer 2 ATM and Frame Relay networks. MPLS is an integration of
Layer 2 and Layer 3 technologies. By making traditional Layer 2 features available to Layer 3, MPLS enables traffic engineering. Thus, you can offer in a one-tier network what now can be achieved only by overlaying a Layer 3 network on a Layer 2 network.

Feature History for Implementing MPLS-TE on Cisco IOS XR Software

Release

Modification

Release 2.0

This feature was introduced on the Cisco CRS-1.

Release 3.0

No modification.

Release 3.2

Support was added for the Cisco XR 12000 Series Router.

Release 3.3.0

Support was added for Generalized MPLS.

Release 3.4.0

Support was added for Flexible Name-based Tunnel Constraints, Interarea MPLS-TE, MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency, and GMPLS Protection and Restoration, and GMPLS Path Protection.

Release 3.4.1

Support was added for MPLS-TE and FRR¹ link bundling on the Cisco CRS-1.

¹FRR = Fast Reroute

Contents

•Prerequisites for Implementing Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering

•Information About Implementing MPLS Traffic Engineering

•How to Implement Traffic Engineering on Cisco IOS XR Software

•Configuration Examples for Cisco MPLS-TE

•Additional References

Prerequisites for Implementing Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering

The following prerequisites are required:

•You must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes the proper task IDs for MPLS-TE commands. Task IDs for commands are listed in the Cisco IOS XR Task ID Reference Guide.

•A router that runs Cisco IOS XR software.

•An installed composite mini-image and the MPLS package, or a full composite image.

•IGP activated.

Information About Implementing MPLS Traffic Engineering

To implement MPLS-TE you must understand the following concepts:

•Overview of MPLS Traffic Engineering

•Protocol-Based CLI

•Differentiated Services Traffic Engineering

•Flooding

•Fast Reroute

•MPLS-TE and Fast Reroute over Link Bundles

•Generalized MPLS

•Flexible Name-based Tunnel Constraints

•MPLS Traffic Engineering Interarea Tunneling

•MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency

Overview of MPLS Traffic Engineering

MPLS-TE software enables an MPLS backbone to replicate and expand upon the traffic engineering capabilities of Layer 2 ATM and Frame Relay networks. MPLS is an integration of Layer 2 and Layer 3 technologies. By making traditional Layer 2 features available to Layer 3, MPLS enables traffic engineering. Thus, you can offer in a one-tier network what now can be achieved only by overlaying a Layer 3 network on a Layer 2 network.

MPLS-TE is essential for service provider and Internet service provider (ISP) backbones. Such backbones must support a high use of transmission capacity, and the networks must be very resilient so that they can withstand link or node failures. MPLS-TE provides an integrated approach to traffic engineering. With MPLS, traffic engineering capabilities are integrated into Layer 3, which optimizes the routing of IP traffic, given the constraints imposed by backbone capacity and topology.

Benefits of MPLS Traffic Engineering

MPLS-TE enables ISPs to route network traffic to offer the best service to their users in terms of throughput and delay. By making the service provider more efficient, traffic engineering reduces the cost of the network.

Currently, some ISPs base their services on an overlay model. In the overlay model, transmission facilities are managed by Layer 2 switching. The routers see only a fully meshed virtual topology, making most destinations appear one hop away. If you use the explicit Layer 2 transit layer, you can precisely control how traffic uses available bandwidth. However, the overlay model has numerous disadvantages. MPLS-TE achieves the TE benefits of the overlay model without running a separate network and without a non-scalable, full mesh of router interconnects.

How MPLS-TE Works

MPLS-TE automatically establishes and maintains label switched paths (LSPs) across the backbone by using resource reservation protocol (RSVP). The path that an LSP uses is determined by the LSP resource requirements and network resources, such as bandwidth. Available resources are flooded by means of extensions to a link-state-based Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP).

MPLS-TE tunnels are calculated at the LSP headend router, based on a fit between the required and available resources (constraint-based routing). The IGP automatically routes the traffic to these LSPs.

Typically, a packet crossing the MPLS-TE backbone travels on a single LSP that connects the ingress point to the egress point. MPLS-TE is built on the following mechanisms:

•Tunnel interfaces—From a Layer 2 standpoint, an MPLS tunnel interface represents the headend of an LSP. It is configured with a set of resource requirements, such as bandwidth and media requirements, and priority. From a Layer 3 standpoint, an LSP tunnel interface is the headend of a unidirectional virtual link to the tunnel destination.

•MPLS-TE path calculation module—This calculation module operates at the LSP headend. The module determines a path to use for an LSP. The path calculation uses a link-state database containing flooded topology and resource information.

•RSVP with TE extensions—RSVP operates at each LSP hop and is used to signal and maintain LSPs based on the calculated path.

•MPLS-TE link management module—This module operates at each LSP hop, performs link call admission on the RSVP signaling messages, and performs bookkeeping on topology and resource information to be flooded.

•Link-state IGP (Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System [IS-IS] or Open Shortest Path First [OSPF]—each with traffic engineering extensions)—These IGPs are used to globally flood topology and resource information from the link management module.

•Enhancements to the shortest path first (SPF) calculation used by the link-state IGP (IS-IS or OSPF)—The IGP automatically routes traffic to the appropriate LSP tunnel, based on tunnel destination. Static routes can also be used to direct traffic to LSP tunnels.

•Label switching forwarding—This forwarding mechanism provides routers with a Layer 2-like ability to direct traffic across multiple hops of the LSP established by RSVP signaling.

One approach to engineering a backbone is to define a mesh of tunnels from every ingress device to every egress device. The MPLS-TE path calculation and signaling modules determine the path taken by the LSPs for these tunnels, subject to resource availability and the dynamic state of the network.

The IGP (operating at an ingress device) determines which traffic should go to which egress device, and steers that traffic into the tunnel from ingress to egress. A flow from an ingress device to an egress device might be so large that it cannot fit over a single link, so it cannot be carried by a single tunnel. In this case, multiple tunnels between a given ingress and egress can be configured, and the flow is distributed using load sharing among the tunnels.

Protocol-Based CLI

Cisco IOS XR software provides a protocol-based command line interface. The CLI provides commands that can be used with the multiple IGP protocols supported by MPLS-TE.

Differentiated Services Traffic Engineering

MPLS Differentiated Services (Diff-Serv) Aware Traffic Engineering (DS-TE) is an extension of the regular MPLS-TE feature. Regular traffic engineering does not provide bandwidth guarantees to different traffic classes. A single bandwidth constraint is used in regular TE that is shared by all traffic. To support various classes of service (CoS), users can configure multiple bandwidth constraints. These bandwidth constraints can be treated differently based on the requirement for the traffic class using that constraint.

MPLS diff-serv traffic engineering provides the ability to configure multiple bandwidth constraints on an MPLS-enabled interface. Available bandwidths from all configured bandwidth constraints are advertised using IGP. TE tunnel is configured with bandwidth value and class-type requirements. Path calculation and admission control take the bandwidth and class-type into consideration. RSVP is used to signal the TE tunnel with bandwidth and class-type requirements.

Diff-Serv TE can be deployed with either Russian Doll Model (RDM) or Maximum Allocation Model (MAM) for bandwidth calculations.

Cisco IOS XR software supports two DS-TE modes: Prestandard and IETF. Both modes are described in further detail in the sections that follow.

Prestandard DS-TE Mode

Prestandard DS-TE uses the Cisco proprietary mechanisms for RSVP signaling and IGP advertisements. This DS-TE mode does not interoperate with third-party vendor equipment. Note that prestandard DS-TE is enabled only after configuring the sub-pool bandwidth values on MPLS-enabled interfaces.

Prestandard Diff-Serve TE mode supports a single bandwidth constraint model, Russian Doll Model (RDM) with two bandwidth pools, global-pool and sub-pool.

Note TE class map is not used with Prestandard DS-TE mode.

IETF DS-TE Mode

IETF Diff-Serv TE mode uses IETF defined extensions for RSVP and IGP. This mode interoperates with third-party vendor equipment.

IETF mode supports multiple bandwidth constraint models, including the Russian Doll Model (RDM) and the Maximum Allocation Model (MAM) both with two bandwidth pools. Note that in an IETF DS-TE network, identical bandwidth constraint models must be configured on all nodes.

TE class map is used with IETF DS-TE mode and must be configured the same way on all nodes in the network.

Bandwidth Constraint Models

IETF DS-TE mode provides support for the Russian Dolls and Maximum Allocation bandwidth constraints models. Both models support up two bandwidth pools.

Cisco IOS XR provides global configuration for the switching between bandwidth constraint models. Both models can be configured on a single interface to pre-configure the bandwidth constraints before swapping to an alternate bandwidth constraint model.

Note NSF is not guaranteed when you change the bandwidth constraint model or configuration information.

By default, RDM is the default bandwidth constraint model used in both pre-standard and IETF mode.

Maximum Allocation Bandwidth Constraint Model

The MAM constraint model has the following characteristics:

•Easy to use and intuitive

•Ensures isolation across class types

•Simultaneously achieves isolation, bandwidth efficiency, and protection against QoS degradation

Russian Dolls Bandwidth Constraint Model

The RDM constraint model has the following characteristics:

•allows greater sharing of bandwidth among different class types

•as with MAM, simultaneously ensures bandwidth efficiency and protection against QoS degradation of all class types

•can be used in conjunction with preemption to simultaneously achieve isolation across class-types such that each class-type is guaranteed its share of bandwidth, bandwidth efficiency, and protection against QoS degradation of all class types

Note We recommend that RDM not be used in DS-TE environments in which the use of preemption is precluded. While RDM ensures bandwidth efficiency and protection against QoS degradation of class types, it does guarantee isolation across class types.

TE Class Mapping

Each of the eight available bandwidth values advertised in the IGP corresponds to a TE Class. Because the IGP advertises only eight bandwidth values, there can be a maximum of only eight TE classes supported in an IETF DS-TE network.

TE class mapping must be exactly the same on all routers in a DS-TE domain. It is the responsibility of the operator configure these settings properly as there is no way to automatically check or enforce consistency.

The operator must configure TE tunnel class types and priority levels to form a valid TE class. When the TE class map configuration is changed, tunnels already up are brought down. Tunnels in the down state, can be set up if a valid TE class map is found.

Table 2 list the Default TE class and attributes.

Table 2 TE Classes and Priority

TE Class

Class Type

Priority

0

0

7

1

1

7

2

Unused

3

Unused

4

0

0

5

1

0

6

Unused

7

Unused

Note The default mapping includes four class types.

Flooding

Available bandwidth in all configured bandwidth pools is flooded on the network to calculate accurate constraint paths when a new TE tunnel is configured. Flooding uses IGP protocol extensions and mechanisms to determine when to flood the network with bandwidth.

Flooding Triggers

TE Link Management (TE-Link) notifies IGP for both global pool and sub-pool available bandwidth and maximum bandwidth to flood the network in the following events:

•The periodic timer expires (this does not depend on bandwidth pool type).

•The tunnel origination node has out-of-date information for either available global pool, or sub-pool bandwidth, causing tunnel admission failure at the midpoint.

•Consumed bandwidth crosses user-configured thresholds. The same threshold is used for both global pool and sub-pool. If one bandwidth crosses the threshold, both bandwidths are flooded.

Flooding Thresholds

Flooding frequently can burden a network because all routers must send out and process these updates. Infrequent flooding causes tunnel heads (tunnel-originating nodes) to have out-of-date information, causing tunnel admission to fail at the midpoints.

You can control the frequency of flooding by configuring a set of thresholds. When locked bandwidth (at one or more priority levels) crosses one of these thresholds, flooding is triggered.

Thresholds apply to a percentage of the maximum available bandwidth (the global pool), which is locked, and the percentage of maximum available guaranteed bandwidth (the sub-pool), which is locked. If, for one or more priority levels, either of these percentages crosses a threshold, flooding is triggered.

Note Setting up a global pool TE tunnel can cause the locked bandwidth allocated to sub-pool tunnels to be reduced (and hence to cross a threshold). A sub-pool TE tunnel setup can similarly cause the locked bandwidth for global pool TE tunnels to cross a threshold. Thus, sub-pool TE and global pool TE tunnels can affect each other when flooding is triggered by thresholds.

Fast Reroute

Fast Reroute (FRR) provides link protection to LSPs enabling the traffic carried by LSPs that encounter a failed link to be rerouted around the failure. The reroute decision is controlled locally by the router connected to the failed link. The headend router on the tunnel is notified of the link failure through IGP or through RSVP. When it is notified of a link failure, the headend router attempts to establish a new LSP that bypasses the failure. This provides a path to reestablish links that fail, providing protection to data transfer.

FRR (link or node) is supported over sub-pool tunnels the same way as for regular TE tunnels. In particular, when link protection is activated for a given link, TE tunnels eligible for FRR are redirected into the protection LSP, regardless of whether they are sub-pool or global pool tunnels.

Note The ability to configure FRR on a per-LSP basis makes it possible to provide different levels of fast restoration to tunnels from different bandwidth pools.

You should be aware of the following requirements for the backup tunnel path:

•The backup tunnel must not pass through the element it protects.

•The primary tunnel and a backup tunnel should intersect at least at two points (nodes) on the path: point of local repair (PLR) and merge point (MP). PLR is the headend of the backup tunnel and MP is the tailend of the backup tunnel.

Note When you configure TE tunnel with multiple protection on its path and merge point is the same node for more than one protection, you must configure record-route for that tunnel.

•For bandwidth protection, there must be sufficient backup bandwidth available to carry primary tunnel traffic.

MPLS-TE and Fast Reroute over Link Bundles

MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE) and FRR are supported over bundle interfaces on the Cisco CRS-1 only.

The following link bundle types are supported for MPLS-TE/FRR:

•Over POS link bundles

•Over Ethernet link bundles

•Over VLANs over Ether link bundles

•Number of links are limited to 100 for MPLS-TE and FRR.

FRR is supported over bundle interfaces in the following ways:

•Uses minimum links as a threshold to trigger FRR over a bundle interface.

•Does not have a backup assignment when both primary and backup assignments are going over the same physical bundle link (for example, different VLANs).

•Uses the minimum total available bandwidth as a threshold to trigger FRR.

Generalized MPLS

Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Traffic Engineering (TE) consists of extensions to the MPLS-TE mechanisms to control a variety of device types, including optical switches. When GMPLS-TE is used to control an hierarchical optical network—a network with a core of optical switches surrounded by outer layers of routers—it can provide unified control of devices that have very different hardware capabilities. Other control-plane solutions for such network architectures typically use an overlay model, using separate control-planes to manage the optical core and the routed network, respectively, with little or no knowledge passing between them.

GMPLS-TE protocols and extensions include:

•Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) for signaling

•Interior Gateway Protocols (IGP) such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) for routing

•Link Management Protocol (LMP) for managing link information

The base protocol definitions for RSVP, OSPF, and IS-IS were previously extended for MPLS-TE to provide circuit mechanisms within packet IP networks. These protocols have been extended for GMPLS-TE.

LMP provides facilities similar to Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Integrated Local Management Interface (ILMI) and Frame Relay Local Management Interface (LMI). LMP also has features addressing the minimal to nonexistent framing support typical of data links on optical switches.

Optical switches differ from packet and cell devices, in that the data links of optical switches typically can carry only transit traffic. This means that traffic entering an optical switch via one data link is required to leave the switch via a different link. For this reason, a data link that connects two neighboring optical devices cannot exchange control frames between the two devices.

Therefore, optical switches typically have separate frame-capable interfaces for sending and receiving control and management traffic. This type of control is referred to as "out-of-band." It contrasts with the in-band control of many non-optical networks where control frames and data frames are intermixed on the same link.

To address this characteristic, the GMPLS protocols have been extended to support out-of-band control.

GMPLS Benefits

GMPLS bridges the Internet Protocol (IP) and photonic layers, thereby making possible interoperable and scalable parallel growth in the IP and photonic dimensions.

This allows for rapid service deployment and operational efficiencies, as well as for increased revenue opportunities. A smooth transition becomes possible from a traditional segregated transport and service overlay model to a more unified peer model.

By streamlining support for multiplexing and switching in a hierarchical fashion, and by utilizing the flexible intelligence of MPLS-TE, optical switching GMPLS becomes very helpful for service providers wanting to manage large volumes of traffic in a cost-efficient manner.

GMPLS Support

GMPLS-TE provides support for:

•Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) for bidirectional TE tunnel

•Frame, lambda, and port (fiber) labels

•Numbered/Unnumbered links

•OSPF extensions-Route computation with optical constraints

•RSVP extensions-Graceful Restart

•Graceful deletion

•LSP hierarchy

•Peer model

•Border model Control plane separation

•Interarea/AS-Verbatim

•BGP4/MPLS

•Restoration-Dynamic path computation

•Control channel manager

•Link summary

•Protection and restoration

GMPLS Protection and Restoration

GMPLS provides protection against failed channels (or links) between two adjacent nodes (span protection) and end-to-end dedicated protection (path protection). After the route is computed, signaling to establish the backup paths is carried out through RSVP-TE or CR-LDP. For span protection, 1+1 or M:N protection schemes are provided by establishing secondary paths through the network. In addition, you can use signaling messages to switch from the failed primary path to the secondary path.

Note Only 1:1 end-to-end path protection is supported.

The restoration of a failed path refers to the dynamic establishment of a backup path. This process requires the dynamic allocation of resources and route calculation. The following restoration methods are described:

•Line restoration—Finds an alternate route at an intermediate node.

•Path restoration—Initiates at the source node to route around a failed path within the path for a specific LSP.

Restoration schemes provide more bandwidth usage, because they do not preallocate any resource for an LSP.

GMPLS combines MPLS-FRR and other types of protection, such as SONET/SDH, wavelength, and so forth.

In addition to SONET alarms in POS links, protection and restoration is also triggered by bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD).

1:1 LSP Protection

1:1 protection scheme occurs when one specific protecting LSP or span protects one specific working LSP or span. However, normal traffic is transmitted only over one LSP at a time for working or recovery.

1:1 protection with extra traffic refers to the scheme in which extra traffic is carried over a protecting LSP when the protecting LSP is not being used for the recovery of normal traffic. For example, the protecting LSP is in standby mode. When the protecting LSP is required to recover normal traffic from the failed working LSP, the extra traffic is preempted. Extra traffic is not protected, but it can be restored. Extra traffic is transported using the protected LSP resources.

Shared Mesh Restoration and M:N Path Protection

Both shared mesh restoration and M:N (1:N is more practical) path protection offers sharing for protection resources for multiple working LSPs. For 1:N protection, a specific protecting LSP is dedicated to the protection of up to N working LSPs and spans. Shared mesh is defined as preplanned LSP rerouting, which reduces the restoration resource requirements by allowing multiple restoration LSPs to be initiated from distinct ingress nodes to share common resources, such as links and nodes.

End-to-end Recovery

End-to-end recovery refers to an entire LSP from the source for an ingress router endpoint to the destination for an egress router endpoint.

GMPLS Protection Requirements

The GMPLS protection requirements are specific to the protection scheme that is enabled at the data plane. For example, SONET APS or MPLS-FRR are identified as the data level for GMPLS protection.

GMPLS Prerequisites

The following prerequisites are required to implement GMPLS on Cisco IOS XR software:

•You must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes the proper task IDs for GMPLS commands.

•A router that runs Cisco IOS XR software.

•Installation of the Cisco IOS XR software mini-image on the router.

Flexible Name-based Tunnel Constraints

MPLS-TE Flexible Name-based Tunnel Constraints provides a simplified and more flexible means of configuring link attributes and path affinities to compute paths for MPLS-TE tunnels.

In the traditional TE scheme, links are configured with attribute-flags that are flooded with TE link-state parameters using Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs), such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF).

MPLS-TE Flexible Name-based Tunnel Constraints lets you assign, or map, up to 32 color names for affinity and attribute-flag attributes instead of 32-bit hexadecimal numbers. After mappings are defined, the attributes can be referred to by the corresponding color name in the command-line interface (CLI). Furthermore, you can define constraints using include, include-strict, exclude, and exclude-all arguments, where each statement can contain up to 10 colors, and define include constraints in both loose and strict sense.

Note You can configure affinity constraints using attribute flags or the Flexible Name Based Tunnel Constraints scheme; however, when configurations for both schemes exist, only the configuration pertaining to the new scheme is applied.

MPLS Traffic Engineering Interarea Tunneling

This sections describes the following new extensions of MPLS-TE:

•Interarea Support

•Multiarea Support

•Loose Hop Expansion

•Loose Hop Reoptimization

•Fast Reroute Node Protection

Interarea Support

The MPLS-TE interarea tunneling feature allows you to establish TE tunnels spanning multiple Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) areas and levels, thereby eliminating the requirement that headend and tailend routers reside in a single area.

Interarea support allows the configuration of a TE LSP that spans multiple areas, where its headend and tailend label switched routers (LSRs) reside in different IGP areas.)

Multiarea and Interarea TE are required by the customers running multiple IGP area backbones (primarily for scalability reasons). This lets you limit the amount of flooded information, reduces the SPF duration, and lessens the impact of a link or node failure within an area, particularly with large WAN backbones split in multiple areas as shown in diagram 1.

Figure 7 shows a typical interarea TE network.

Figure 7 Interarea (OSPF) TE Network Diagram

Multiarea Support

Multiarea support allows an ABR LSR to support MPLS-TE in more than one IGP area. A TE LSP will still be confined to a single area.

Multiarea and Interarea TE are required when you run multiple IGP area backbones. This lets you limit the volume of flooded information, reduces the SPF duration, and lessens the impact of a link or node failure within an area.

Figure 8 Interlevel (IS-IS) TE Network

As shown in Figure 8, R2, R3, R7, and R4 maintain two databases for routing and TE information. For example, R3 has TE topology information related to R2, flooded through Level-1 IS-IS LSPs plus the TE topology information related to R4, R9, and R7, flooded as Level 2 IS-IS Link State PDUs (LSPs) (plus, its own IS-IS LSP).

Note You can configure multiple areas within an IS-IS Level 1. This is transparent to TE. TE has topology information about the IS-IS level, but not the area ID.

Loose Hop Expansion

Loose hop optimization allows the reoptimization of tunnels spanning multiple areas and solves the problem which occurs when an MPLS-TE LSP traverses hops that are not in the LSP's headend's OSPF area and IS-IS level.

Interarea MPLS-TE lets you configure an interarea TE LSP by specifying a loose source route of ABRs along the path. It is the then the responsibility of the ABR (having a complete view of both areas) to find a path obeying the TE LSP constraints within the next area to reach the next hop ABR (as specified on the headend). The same operation is performed by the last ABR connected to the tailend area to reach the tailend LSR.

You must be aware of the following considerations when using loose hop optimization:

•You must specify the router ID of the ABR node (as opposed to a link address on the ABR).

•When multiarea is deployed in a network that contains subareas, you must enable MPLS-TE in the subarea for TE to find a path when loose hop is specified.

•You must specify the reachable explicit path for the interarea tunnel.

Loose Hop Reoptimization

Loose hop reoptimization allows the reoptimization of the tunnels spanning multiple areas and solves the problem which occurs when an MPLS-TE headend does not have visibility into other IGP areas.

Whenever the headend attempts to reoptimize a tunnel, it tries to find a better path to the ABR in the headend area. If a better path is found then the headend initiates the setup of a new LSP. In case no better path was found in the headend area, the headend initiates a querying message. The purpose of this message is to query the ABRs in the areas other then the headend area to check if there exist any better paths in those areas. When an ABR receives the query, it tries to find a better partial path than the one computed earlier. If it does not find a better path, it forwards the query to the next router downstream. Alternatively, if it finds a better path, it will respond with a special Path Error to the headend to indicate the existence of a better path outside the headend area. Upon receiving the Path Error indicating the existence of a better path, the headend router initiates the reoptimization.

ABR Node Protection

Since one IGP area does not have visibility into another IGP area, it is not possible to assign backup to protect ABR node. To overcome this problem, node ID sub-object is added into the record route object of the primary tunnel so that at a PLR node, backup destination address can be checked against primary tunnel record-route object and assign a backup tunnel.

Fast Reroute Node Protection

If a link failure occurs within an area, the upstream router directly connected to the failed link generates an RSVP path error message to the headend. As a response to the message, the headend sends an RSVP path tear message and the corresponding path option is marked as invalid for a specified period and the next path-option (if any) is evaluated.

To retry the ABR immediately, a second path option (identical to the first one) should be configured. Alternatively, the retry period (path-option hold-down, 2 minutes by default) can be tuned to achieve a faster retry.

MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency

The MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency feature allows a network administrator to handle a traffic engineering, label-switched path (LSP) tunnel as a link in an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) network based on the Shortest Path First (SPF) algorithm. A forwarding adjacency can be created between routers regardless of their location in the network.

MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency Benefits

TE tunnel interfaces are advertised in the IGP network just like any other links. Routers can then use these advertisements in their IGPs to compute the SPF even if they are not the head end of any TE tunnels.

MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency Restrictions

•Using the MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency feature increases the size of the IGP database by advertising a TE tunnel as a link.

•The MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency feature is supported by Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS).

•When the MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency feature is enabled on a TE tunnel, the link is advertised in the IGP network as a Type-Length-Value (TLV) 22 without any TE sub-TLV.

•MPLS-TE forwarding adjacency tunnels must be configured bidirectionally.

MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency Prerequisites

Your network must support the following features before enabling the MPLS -TE Forwarding Adjacency feature:

•Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)

•IP Cisco Express Forwarding

•Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS)

How to Implement Traffic Engineering on Cisco IOS XR Software

Traffic engineering requires coordination among several global neighbor routers, creating traffic engineering tunnels, setting up forwarding across traffic engineering tunnels, setting up FRR, and creating differential service. This section explains the following procedures:

•Building MPLS-TE Topology (required)

•Creating an MPLS-TE Tunnel (required)

•Configuring Forwarding over the MPLS-TE Tunnel (required)

•Protecting the MPLS Tunnel with Fast Reroute (optional)

•Configuring a Prestandard Diff-Serv TE Tunnel(optional)

•Configuring an IETF Diff-Serv TE Tunnel Using RDM (optional)

•Configuring an IETF Diff-Serv TE Tunnel Using MAM (optional)

•Configuring GMPLS on Cisco IOS XR Software (optional)

•Configuring Flexible Name-based Tunnel Constraints

•Configuring IS-IS to Flood MPLS-TE Link Information

•Configuring an OSPF Area of MPLS-TE

•Configuring Explicit Paths with ABRs Configured as Loose Addresses

•Configuring MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency

Building MPLS-TE Topology

Perform this task to configure MPLS-TE topology, which is required for traffic engineering tunnel operations. Building the MPLS-TE topology is done in the following basic steps:

•Enabling MPLS-TE on the port interface.

•Enabling RSVP on the port interface.

•Enabling an IGP such as OSPF or IS-IS for MPLS-TE.

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites are required:

•You must have a router ID for the neighboring router.

•A stable router ID is required at either end of the link to ensure that the link is successful. If you do not assign a router ID, the system defaults to the global router ID. Default router IDs are subject to change, which can result in an unstable link.

•If you are going to use nondefault holdtime or intervals, you must decide the values to which they are set.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. router-id {interface-name | ip-address}

3. mpls traffic-eng

4. interface type instance

5. exit

6. router ospf instance-name

7. router-id {interface-name | ip-address}

8. area area-id

9. interface type instance

10. interface interface-name

11. exit

12. mpls traffic-eng router-id interface-name

13. area area-id

14. exit

15. rsvp interface type instance

16. bandwidth bandwidth

17. end
or
commit

18. show mpls traffic topology

19. show mpls traffic-eng link-management advertisements

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters the configuration mode.

Step 2

router id {interface-name | ip-address}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if)# router id Loopback 0

Specifies the global router ID of the local node.

•The router ID can be specified with an interface name or an IP address. By default, MPLS uses the global router ID.

Step 3

mpls traffic-eng
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# mpls traffic-eng

Enters the MPLS-TE configuration mode.

Step 4

interface type instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# interface Bundle-POS 500

Enters MPLS-TE interface configuration mode and enables traffic engineering on a particular interface on the originating node (in this case, Bundle-POS interface 500).

Step 5

exit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# exit

Exits the current configuration mode.

Step 6

router ospf instance-name
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# router ospf 1

Enters a name for the OSPF process.

Step 7

router-id ip-address
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-router)# router-id 192.168.25.66

Configures a router ID for the OSPF process using an IP address.

Step 8

area area-id
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-router)# area 0

Configures an area for the OSPF process.

•Backbone areas have an area ID of 0.

•Non-backbone areas have a non-zero area ID.

Step 9

interface type instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-ospf-ar)# interface
Bundle-POS 500

Configures one or more interfaces for the area configured in Step 8.

Step 10

interface interface-name
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-ospf-ar)# interface loopback 0

Enables IGP on the loopback0 MPLS router ID.

Step 11

exit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-ospf-ar)# exit

Exits the current configuration mode.

Step 12

mpls traffic-eng router-id interface-name
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-ospf)# mpls traffic-eng router-id loopback 0

Sets the MPLS-TE loopback interface.

Step 13

area area-id
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-ospf)# area 0

Sets the MPLS-TE area.

Step 14

exit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-ospf-ar)# exit

Exits the current configuration mode.

Step 15

rsvp interface type instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# rsvp interface Bundle-POS 500

Enters RSVP interface submode, and enables RSVP on a particular interface on the originating node (in this case, on the Bundle-POS interface 500).

Step 16

bandwidth bandwidth
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if)# bandwidth 100

Sets the reserved RSVP bandwidth available on this interface.

Note Physical interface bandwidth is not used by MPLS-TE.

Step 17

end
or

commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Step 18

show mpls traffic-eng topology
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# show mpls traffic-eng topology

(Optional) Verifies the traffic engineering topology.

Step 19

show mpls traffic-eng link-management advertisements
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# show mpls traffic-eng link-management advertisements

(Optional) Displays all the link-management advertisements for the links on this node.

Creating an MPLS-TE Tunnel

Creating an MPLS-TE tunnel is a process of customizing the traffic engineering to fit your network topology. Perform this task to create an MPLS-TE tunnel after you have built the traffic engineering topology (see "Building MPLS-TE Topology" section).

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites are required:

•You must have a router ID for the neighboring router.

•A stable router ID is required at either end of the link to ensure that the link is successful. If you do not assign a router ID to the routers, the system defaults to the global router ID. Default router IDs are subject to change, which can result in an unstable link.

•If you are going to use nondefault holdtime or intervals, you must decide the values to which they are set.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. interface tunnel-te number

3. destination ip-address

4. ipv4 unnumbered loopback number

5. path-option path-id dynamic

6. signaled bandwidth {bandwidth [class-type ct] | sub-pool bandwidth}

7. end
or
commit

8. show mpls traffic-eng tunnels

9. show ipv4 interface brief

10. show mpls traffic-eng link-management admission-control

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

interface tunnel-te number
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# interface tunnel-te 1

Enters MPLS-TE interface configuration mode.

Step 3

destination ip-address
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# destination 192.168.92.125

Assigns a destination address on the new tunnel.

•The destination address is the remote node's MPLS-TE router ID.

Step 4

ipv4 unnumbered loopback number
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# ipv4 unnumbered loopback 0

Assigns a source address so that forwarding can be performed on the new tunnel.

Step 5

path-option path-id dynamic
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# path-option l dynamic

Sets the path option to dynamic and also assigns the path ID.

Step 6

signaled bandwidth {bandwidth [class-type ct] | sub-pool bandwidth}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# signaled bandwidth 100

Sets the CT0 bandwidth required on this interface. Because the default tunnel priority is 7, tunnels use the default TE class map (namely, class-type 1, priority 7).

Step 7

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Step 8

show mpls traffic-eng tunnels
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# show mpls traffic-eng tunnels

(Optional) Verifies that the tunnel is connected (in the UP state) and displays all configured TE tunnels.

Step 9

show ipv4 interface brief
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# show ipv4 interface brief

(Optional) Displays all TE tunnel interfaces.

Step 10

show mpls traffic-eng link-management admission-control
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# show mpls traffic-eng link-management admission-control

(Optional) Displays all the tunnels on this node.

Configuring Forwarding over the MPLS-TE Tunnel

Perform this task to configure forwarding over the MPLS-TE tunnel created in the previous task (see "Creating an MPLS-TE Tunnel" section). This procedure allows MPLS packets to be forwarded on the link between network neighbors.

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites are required:

•You must have a router ID for the neighboring router.

•A stable router ID is required at either end of the link to ensure that the link is successful. If you do not assign a router ID to the routers, the system defaults to the global router ID. Default router IDs are subject to change, which can result in an unstable link.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. interface tunnel-te number

3. ipv4 unnumbered loopback number

4. autoroute announce

5. exit

6. router static address-family ipv4 unicast prefix mask ip-address interface type

7. end
or
commit

8. ping {ip-address | hostname}

9. show mpls traffic-eng autoroute

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

interface tunnel-te number
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# interface tunnel-te 1

Enters MPLS-TE interface configuration mode.

Step 3

ipv4 unnumbered loopback number
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# ipv4 unnumbered loopback 0

Assigns a source address so that forwarding can be performed on the new tunnel.

Step 4

autoroute announce
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# autoroute announce

Enables messages that notify the neighbor nodes about the routes that are forwarding.

Step 5

exit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# exit

Exits the current configuration mode.

Step 6

router static address-family ipv4 unicast prefix mask ip-address interface type
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# router static address-family ipv4 unicast 2.2.2.2/32 tunnel-te 1

(Optional) Enables a route using IP version 4 addressing, identifies the destination address and the tunnel where forwarding is enabled.

•This configuration is used for static routes when autoroute announce config is not used.

Step 7

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Step 8

ping {ip-address | hostname}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# ping 192.168.12.52

(Optional) Checks for connectivity to a particular IP address or host name.

Step 9

show mpls traffic-eng autoroute
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# show mpls traffic-eng autoroute

(Optional) Verifies forwarding by displaying what is advertised to IGP for the TE tunnel.

Protecting the MPLS Tunnel with Fast Reroute

Perform this task to protect the MPLS-TE tunnel created in the previous task (see "Configuring Forwarding over the MPLS-TE Tunnel" section). Although this task is similar, its importance makes it necessary to present as part of the tasks required for traffic engineering on Cisco IOS XR software.

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites are required:

•You must have a router ID for the neighboring router.

•A stable router ID is required at either end of the link to ensure that the link is successful. If you do not assign a router ID to the routers, the system defaults to the global router ID. Default router IDs are subject to change, which can result in an unstable link.

•You must first configure a primary and a backup tunnel (see "Creating an MPLS-TE Tunnel" section).

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. interface tunnel-te number

3. fast-reroute

4. exit

5. mpls traffic-eng interface type instance

6. backup-path tunnel-te tunnel-number

7. exit

8. interface tunnel-te tunnel-id

9. backup-bw {bandwidth | sub-pool {bandwidth | unlimited} | global-pool {bandwidth | unlimited}}

10. ipv4 unnumbered loopback number

11. path-option path-id explicit name explicit-path-name

12. destination A.B.C.D

13. end
or
commit

14. show mpls traffic-eng tunnels backup

15. show mpls traffic-eng tunnels protection

16. show mpls traffic-eng fast-reroute database

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

interface tunnel-te number
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# interface tunnel-te1

Enters MPLS-TE interface configuration mode.

Step 3

fast-reroute
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# fast-reroute

Enables fast reroute.

Step 4

exit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# exit

Exits the current configuration mode.

Step 5

mpls traffic-eng interface type instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# mpls traffic-eng interface pos0/6/0/0

Enters the MPLS-TE configuration mode, and enables traffic engineering on a particular interface on the originating node (in this case, on POS interface 0/6/0/0).

Step 6

backup-path tunnel-te tunnel-number
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if)# backup-path tunnel-te 2

Sets the backup path to the backup tunnel to ensure that the backup tunnel outgoing interface is different than POS interface 0/6/0/0 (for which protection is required).

Step 7

exit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# exit

Exits the current configuration mode.

Step 8

interface tunnel-te number
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# interface tunnel-te2

Enters MPLS-TE interface configuration mode.

Step 9

backup-bw {bandwidth | sub-pool {bandwidth | unlimited} | global-pool {bandwidth | unlimited}}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# backup-bw global-pool 5000

Sets the CT0 bandwidth required on this interface. Because the default tunnel priority is 7, tunnels use the default TE class map (namely, class-type 1, priority 7).

Step 10

ipv4 unnumbered loopback number
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# ipv4 unnumbered loopback 0

Assigns a source address to set up forwarding on the new tunnel.

Step 11

path-option path-id explicit name explicit-path-name
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# path-option l explicit name backup-path

Sets the path option to explicit with a given name (previously configured) and assigns the path ID.

Step 12

destination A.B.C.D
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# destination 192.168.92.125

Assigns a destination address on the new tunnel.

•The destination address is the remote node's MPLS-TE router ID.

•The destination address is the merge point between backup and protected tunnels.

Note When you configure TE tunnel with multiple protection on its path and merge point is the same node for more than one protection, you must configure record-route for that tunnel.

Step 13

end
or

commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Step 14

show mpls traffic-eng tunnels backup
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# show mpls traffic-eng tunnels backup

(Optional) Displays the backup tunnel information.

Step 15

show mpls traffic-eng tunnels protection
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# show mpls traffic-eng tunnels protection

(Optional) Displays the tunnel protection information.

Step 16

show mpls traffic-eng fast-reroute database
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# show mpls traffic-eng fast-reroute database

(Optional) Displays the protected tunnel state (for instance, the tunnel's current ready or active state).

Configuring a Prestandard Diff-Serv TE Tunnel

Perform this task to create a Prestandard Diff-Serv TE tunnel.

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites are required:

•You must have a router ID for the neighboring router.

•A stable router ID is required at either end of the link to ensure that the link is successful. If you do not assign a router ID to the routers, the system defaults to the global router ID. Default router IDs are subject to change, which can result in an unstable link.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. rsvp interface type instance

3. bandwidth [0 - 4294967295] [bc0] [global-pool] [mam {0-4294967295 | max-reservable-bandwidth}] [rdm {0-4294967295 | bc0 | global-pool}]

4. exit

5. interface tunnel-te number

6. signaled bandwidth {bandwidth [class-type ct] | sub-pool bandwidth}

7. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

rsvp interface type instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# rsvp interface pos0/6/0/0

Enters RSVP configuration mode and selects an RSVP interface.

Step 3

bandwidth [0 - 4294967295] [bc0] [global-pool] [mam {0-4294967295 | max-reservable-bandwidth}] [rdm {0-4294967295 | bc0 | global-pool}]
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if)# bandwidth 100 150 sub-pool 50

Sets the reserved RSVP bandwidth available on this interface.

Note Physical interface bandwidth is not used by MPLS-TE.

Step 4

exit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if)# exit

Exits the current configuration mode.

Step 5

interface tunnel-te number
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# interface tunnel-te2

Enters MPLS-TE interface configuration mode.

Step 6

signaled bandwidth {bandwidth [class-type ct] | sub-pool bandwidth}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# bandwidth sub-pool 10

Sets the bandwidth required on this interface. Because the default tunnel priority is 7, tunnels use the default TE class map (namely, class-type 1, priority 7).

Step 7

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuring an IETF Diff-Serv TE Tunnel Using RDM

Perform this task to create an IETF mode differentiated services traffic engineering tunnel using default RDM model.

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites are required:

•You must have a router ID for the neighboring router.

•A stable router ID is required at either end of the link to ensure that the link is successful. If you do not assign a router ID to the routers, the system defaults to the global router ID. Default router IDs are subject to change, which can result in an unstable link.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. rsvp interface type instance

3. bandwidth [0 - 4294967295] [bc0] [global-pool] [mam {0-4294967295 | max-reservable-bandwidth}] [rdm {0-4294967295 | bc0 | global-pool}]

4. exit

5. mpls traffic-eng

6. ds-te mode ietf

7. exit

8. interface tunnel-te number

9. signalled-bandwidth {bandwidth [class-type ct] | sub-pool bandwidth}

10. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

rsvp interface type instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# rsvp interface pos0/6/0/0

Enters RSVP configuration mode and selects an RSVP interface.

Step 3

bandwidth [0 - 4294967295] [bc0] [global-pool] [mam {0-4294967295 | max-reservable-bandwidth}] [rdm {0-4294967295 | bc0 | global-pool}]
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if)# bandwidth rdm 100 150

Sets the reserved RSVP bandwidth available on this interface.

Note Physical interface bandwidth is not used by MPLS-TE.

Step 4

exit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if)# exit

Exits the current configuration mode.

Step 5

mpls traffic-eng
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# mpls traffic-eng

Enters MPLS-TE configuration mode.

Step 6

ds-te mode ietf
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# ds-te mode ietf

Enables IETF DS-TE mode and default TE class map. Configure IETF DS-TE mode on all network nodes.

Step 7

exit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# exit

Exits the current configuration mode.

Step 8

interface tunnel-te number
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# interface tunnel-te4

Enters MPLS-TE interface configuration mode.

Step 9

signalled-bandwidth {bandwidth [class-type ct] | sub-pool bandwidth}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# signalled-bandwidth 10 class-type 1

Configures the bandwidth required for an MPLS TE tunnel. Because the default tunnel priority is 7, tunnels use the default TE class map (namely, class-type 1, priority 7).

Step 10

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuring an IETF Diff-Serv TE Tunnel Using MAM

Perform this task to create an IETF mode differentiated services traffic engineering tunnel when using the MAM bandwidth constraint model.

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites are required:

•You must have a router ID for the neighboring router.

•A stable router ID is required at either end of the link to ensure that the link is successful. If you do not assign a router ID to the routers, the system defaults to the global router ID. Default router IDs are subject to change, which can result in an unstable link.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. rsvp interface type instance

3. bandwidth [0 - 4294967295] [bc0] [global-pool] [mam {0-4294967295 | max-reservable-bandwidth}] [rdm {0-4294967295 | bc0 | global-pool}]

4. exit

5. mpls traffic-eng

6. ds-te mode ietf

7. ds-te bc-model mam

8. exit

9. interface tunnel-te number

10. signalled-bandwidth {bandwidth [class-type ct] | sub-pool bandwidth}

11. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

rsvp interface type instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# rsvp interface pos0/6/0/0

Enters RSVP configuration mode and selects the RSVP interface.

Step 3

bandwidth [0 - 4294967295] [bc0] [global-pool] [mam {0-4294967295 | max-reservable-bandwidth}] [rdm {0-4294967295 | bc0 | global-pool}]
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if)# bandwidth mam max-reservable-bw 400 bc0 300 bc1 200

Sets the reserved RSVP bandwidth available on this interface.

Note Physical interface bandwidth is not used by MPLS-TE.

Step 4

exit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# exit

Exits the current configuration mode.

Step 5

mpls traffic-eng
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# mpls traffic-eng

Enters MPLS-TE configuration mode.

Step 6

ds-te mode ietf
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# ds-te mode ietf

Enables IETF DS-TE mode and default TE class map. Configure IETF DS-TE mode on all nodes in the network.

Step 7

ds-te bc-model mam
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# ds-te bc-model mam

Enables the MAM bandwidth constraint model globally.

Step 8

exit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# exit

Exits the current configuration mode.

Step 9

interface tunnel-te number
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# interface tunnel-te4

Enters MPLS-TE interface configuration mode.

Step 10

signalled-andwidth {bandwidth [class-type ct] | sub-pool bandwidth}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if)# bandwidth 10 class-type 1

Configures the bandwidth required for an MPLS TE tunnel. Because the default tunnel priority is 7, tunnels use the default TE class map (namely, class-type 1, priority 7).

Step 11

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuring GMPLS on Cisco IOS XR Software

To fully configure GMPLS, you must complete the following high-level tasks in order:

•Configuring IPCC Control Channel Information

•Configuring Local and Remote TE Links

•Configuring Numbered and Unnumbered Optical TE Tunnels

•Configuring LSP Hierarchy

•Configuring Border Control Model

•Configuring Path Protection

Note These high-level tasks are broken down into, in some cases, several subtasks.

Configuring IPCC Control Channel Information

This section includes the following subtasks:

•Configuring Router IDs

•Configuring OSPF over IPCC

Note You must configure each subtask on both the headend and tailend router.

Configuring Router IDs

Perform this task to configure the router ID for the headend and tailend routers.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. interface type instance

3. ipv4 address A.B.C.D/prefix

4. exit

5. configure

6. router-id {interface-name | ip-address}

7. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

interface type instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# interface POS0/6/0/0

Enters MPLS-TE interface configuration mode and enables traffic engineering on a particular interface on the originating node.

Step 3

ipv4 address A.B.C.D/prefix
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# ipv4 address
192.168.1.27 255.0.0.0

Specifies a primary or secondary IPv4 address for an interface.

•The network mask can be a four-part dotted decimal address. For example, 255.0.0.0 indicates that each bit equal to 1 means the corresponding address bit belongs to the network address.

•The network mask can be indicated as a slash (/) and a number (prefix length). The prefix length is a decimal value that indicates how many of the high-order contiguous bits of the address compose the prefix (the network portion of the address). A slash must precede the decimal value, and there is no space between the IP address and the slash.

Step 4

exit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# exit

Exits the current configuration mode.

Step 5

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Re-enters global configuration mode.

Step 6

router id {interface-name | ip-address}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# router id loopback 0

Specifies the global router ID of the local node.

•The router ID can be specified with an interface name or an IP address. By default, MPLS uses the global router ID.

Step 7

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuring OSPF over IPCC

Perform this task to configure OSPF over IPCC on both the headend and tailend routers. The IGP instance is configured for control network specifically for the signaling plane in the optical domain.

Note IPCC support is restricted to routed, out-of-fiber, and out-of-band.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. router ospf process-name

3. area area-id

4. interface interface-name

5. exit

6. router-id {interface-name | ip-address}

7. mpls traffic-eng area area-id

8. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

router ospf process-name
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# router ospf 1

Configures OSPF routing and assigns a process name.

Step 3

area area-id
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-ospf)# area 0

Configures an area ID for the OSPF process (either as a decimal value or IP address):

•Backbone areas have an area ID of 0.

•Non-backbone areas have a nonzero area ID.

Step 4

interface interface-name
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router((config-ospf-ar)# interface Loopback 0

Enables IGP on the interface.

Note Use this command to configure any interface included in the control network.

Step 5

exit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-ospf-ar-if)# exit

Exits the current configuration mode.

Step 6

mpls traffic-eng router-id {interface-name | ip-address}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# mpls traffic-eng router id 192.168.25.66

Configures a router ID for the OSPF process using an IP address.

Step 7

mpls traffic-eng area area-id
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-ospf)# mpls traffic-eng area 0

Configures the MPLS-TE area.

Step 8

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuring Local and Remote TE Links

The subtasks in this section describe how to configure local and remote MPLS-TE link parameters for numbered and unnumbered TE links on both headend and tailend routers.

This section includes the following subtasks:

•Configuring Numbered and Unnumbered Links

•Configuring Local Reservable Bandwidth

•Configuring Local Switching Capability Descriptors

•Configuring Persistent Interface Index

•Enabling LMP Message Exchange

•Configuring Remote TE Link Adjacency Information for Numbered Links

Configuring Numbered and Unnumbered Links

Perform this task to configure numbered and unnumbered links.

Note Unnumbered TE links use the IP address of the associated interface.

SUMMARY OF STEPS

1. configure

2. interface type instance

3. ipv4 address ipv4-address mask
or
ipv4 unnumbered interface-type interface-instance

4. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

interface type instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# interface POS0/6/0/0

Enters MPLS-TE interface configuration mode and enables traffic engineering on a particular interface on the originating node.

Step 3

ipv4 address ipv4-address mask

or
ipv4 unnumbered interface-type interface-instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# ipv4 address
192.168.1.27 255.0.0.0

Specifies a primary or secondary IPv4 address for an interface.

•The network mask can be a four-part dotted decimal address. For example, 255.0.0.0 indicates that each bit equal to 1 means the corresponding address bit belongs to the network address.

•The network mask can be indicated as a slash (/) and a number (prefix length). The prefix length is a decimal value that indicates how many of the high-order contiguous bits of the address compose the prefix (the network portion of the address). A slash must precede the decimal value, and there is no space between the IP address and the slash.

or

•Enables IPv4 processing on a point-to-point interface without assigning an explicit IPv4 address to that interface.

Note If you configured a unnumbered GigE interface in Step 2 and selected the ipv4 unnumbered interface type option in this step, you must enter the ipv4 point-to-point command to configure point-to-point interface mode.

Step 4

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuring Local Reservable Bandwidth

Perform this task to configure the local reservable bandwidth for the data bearer channels.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. rsvp interface type instance

3. bandwidth [0 - 4294967295] [bc0] [global-pool] [mam {0-4294967295 | max-reservable-bandwidth}] [rdm {0-4294967295 | bc0 | global-pool}]

4. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

rsvp interface type instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# rsvp interface POS0/6/0/0

Enters RSVP configuration mode and selects an RSVP instance.

Step 3

bandwidth [0 - 4294967295] [bc0] [global-pool] [mam {0-4294967295 | max-reservable-bandwidth}] [rdm {0-4294967295 | bc0 | global-pool}]
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if)# bandwidth 2488320 2488320

Sets the reserved RSVP bandwidth available on this interface.

Note MPLS-TE can use only the amount of bandwidth specified using this command on the configured interface.

Step 4

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuring Local Switching Capability Descriptors

Perform this task to configure the local switching capability descriptor.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. mpls traffic-eng

3. interface type instance

4. flooding-igp ospf instance area area

5. switching key cap

6. encoding {sonet/sdh | ethernet}

7. capability {psc1 | lsc | fsc}

8. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

mpls traffic-eng
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# mpls traffic-eng

Enters MPLS-TE configuration mode.

Step 3

interface type instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# interface POS0/6/0/0

Enters MPLS-TE interface configuration mode and enables traffic engineering on a particular interface on the originating node.

Step 4

flooding-igp ospf instance area area
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if)# flooding-igp ospf 0 1

Specifies the IGP OSPF instance and area where the TE links are to be flooded.

Step 5

switching key cap
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if)# switching key 0

Specifies the switching configuration for the interface and enters switching key submode where you will configure encoding and capability.

Note The recommended switch key value is 0.

Step 6

encoding {sonet/sdh | ethernet}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if-sw-0x1)# encoding ethernet

Specifies the interface encoding type, as follows:

•sonet/sdh, or POS

•ethernet, or GigE

Step 7

capability {psc1 | lsc | fsc}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if-sw-0x1)# capability psc1

Specifies the interface switching capability type.

The recommended switch capability type is psc1.

Step 8

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuring Persistent Interface Index

Perform this task to preserve the LMP interface index across all interfaces on the router.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. snmp-server ifindex persist

3. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

snmp-server ifindex persist
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# snmp-server ifindex persist

Enables ifindex persistence globally on all Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) interfaces.

Step 3

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Enabling LMP Message Exchange

Perform the following task to enable LMP message exchange.

LMP is enabled by default. You can disable LMP on a per neighbor basis using the lmp static command in LMP protocol neighbor submode.

Note LMP is recommended unless the peer optical device does not support LMP (in which case it is necessary to disable it at both ends).

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. mpls traffic-eng

3. lmp neighbor name

4. ipcc routed

5. remote node-id node-id

6. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

mpls traffic-eng
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# mpls traffic-eng

Enters MPLS-TE configuration mode.

Step 3

lmp neighbor name
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# lmp neighbor OXC1

Configures or updates a LMP neighbor and its associated parameters.

Step 4

ipcc routed
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-nbr-OXC1)# ipcc routed

Configures a routable Internet Protocol Control Channel (IPCC).

Step 5

remote node-id node-id
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if-sw-0x1)# remote node-id 2.2.2.2

Configures the remote node ID for an LMP neighbor.

Note The node-id value can also be an IPv4 address

Step 6

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if-sw-0x1)# en d
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if-sw-0x1)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Disabling LMP Message Exchange

Perform the following task to disable LMP message exchange.

LMP is enabled by default. You can disable LMP on a per neighbor basis using the lmp static command in LMP protocol neighbor submode.

Note LMP is recommended unless the peer optical device does not support LMP (in which case it is necessary to disable it at both ends).

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. mpls traffic-eng

3. lmp neighbor name

4. lmp static

5. ipcc routed

6. remote node-id node-id

7. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

mpls traffic-eng
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# mpls traffic-eng

Enters MPLS-TE configuration mode.

Step 3

lmp neighbor name
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# lmp neighbor OXC1

Configures or updates a LMP neighbor and its associated parameters.

Step 4

lmp static
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# lmp static

Disables dynamic LMP procedures for the specified neighbor, including LMP hello and LMP link summary.

Note Use this command for neighbors that do not support dynamic lmp procedures.

Step 5

ipcc routed
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-nbr-OXC1)# ipcc routed

Configures a routable IPCC.

Step 6

remote node-id node-id
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if-sw-0x1)# remote node-id 2.2.2.2

Configures the remote node ID for an LMP neighbor.

Note The node ID value must be an IPv4 address.

Step 7

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if-sw-0x1)#
end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-rsvp-if-sw-0x1)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuring Remote TE Link Adjacency Information for Numbered Links

Perform this task to configure remote TE link adjacency information for numbered links.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. mpls traffic-eng

3. interface type instance

4. lmp data-link adjacency

5. remote switching-capability {fsc | lsc | psc1}

6. remote interface-id unnum value

7. remote te-link ipv4 A.B.C.D

8. exit

9. lmp neighbor name

10. remote node-id A.B.C.D

11. end
or
commit

12. show mpls lmp

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

mpls traffic-eng
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# mpls traffic-eng

Enters MPLS-TE configuration mode.

Step 3

interface type instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# interface POS0/6/0/0

Enters MPLS-TE interface configuration mode and enables TE on a particular interface on the originating node.

Step 4

lmp data-link adjacency
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if)# lmp data-link adjacency

Configures LMP neighbor remote TE links.

Step 5

remote switching-capability {fsc | lsc | psc1}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if-adj)# remote switching-capability lsc

Configures the remote LMP MPLS-TE interface switching capability.

Step 6

remote interface-id unnum interface identifier
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if-adj)# remote interface-id unnum 7

Configures the unnumbered interface identifier.

Note Identifiers you specify using this command are the values assigned by the neighbor at the remote side.

Step 7

remote te-link ipv4 A.B.C.D
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if-adj)# remote te-link ipv4 10.10.10.10

Configures the remote LMP MPLS-TE link ID address.

Step 8

exit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-ospf-ar-if)# exit

Exits the current configuration mode.

Step 9

lmp neighbor name
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if-adj)# neighbor OXC1

Configures or updates an LMP neighbor and its associated parameters.

Step 10

remote node-id A.B.C.D
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if-adj)# remote te-link-id ipv4 10.10.10.10

Configures the remote LMP MPLS-TE link ID address.

Step 11

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Step 12

show mpls lmp
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# show mpls lmp

Verifies the assigned value for the local interface identifiers.

Configuring Remote TE Link Adjacency Information for Unnumbered Links

Perform this task to configure remote TE link adjacency information for unnumbered links.

To display the assigned value for the local interface identifiers, use the show mpls lmp command.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. mpls traffic-eng

3. interface type instance

4. lmp data-link adjacency

5. neighbor name

6. remote te-link-id unnum

7. remote interface-id unnum

8. remote switching-capability

9. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

mpls traffic-eng
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# mpls traffic-eng

Enters MPLS-TE configuration mode.

Step 3

interface type instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# interface POS0/6/0/0

Enters MPLS-TE interface configuration mode and enables TE on a particular interface on the originating node.

Step 4

lmp data link adjacency
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if)# lmp data-link adjacency

Configures LMP neighbor remote TE links.

Step 5

neighbor name
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if-adj)# neighbor OXC1

Configures or updates a LMP neighbor and its associated parameters.

Step 6

remote te-link-id unnum
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if-adj)# remote te-link-id unnum 111

Configures the unnumbered interface and identifier.

Step 7

remote interface-id unnum interface identifier
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if-adj)# remote interface-id unnum 7

Configures the unnumbered interface identifier.

Note Identifiers you specify using this command are the values assigned by the neighbor at the remote side.

Step 8

remote switching-capability {fsc | lsc | psc1}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if-adj)# remote switching-capability lsc

Configures emote the LMP MPLS-TE interface switching capability.

Step 9

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuring Numbered and Unnumbered Optical TE Tunnels

This section includes the following subtasks:

•Configuring an Optical TE Tunnel Using Dynamic Path Option

•Configuring an Optical TE Tunnel Using Explicit Path Option

Note Before you can successfully bring optical TE tunnels "up," you must complete the procedures in the preceding sections.

The following characteristics can apply to the headend (or, signaling) router:

•Tunnels can be numbered or unnumbered.

•Tunnels can be dynamic or explicit.

The following characteristics can apply to the tailend (or, passive) router:

•Tunnels can be numbered or unnumbered.

•Tunnels must use the explicit path-option.

Configuring an Optical TE Tunnel Using Dynamic Path Option

Perform this task to configure a numbered or unnumbered optical tunnel on a router; in this example, the dynamic path option on the headend router.

The dynamic option does not require that you specify the different hops to be taken along the way. The hops are calculated automatically.

Note This section provides two examples that describe how to configure a optical tunnels. It does not include procedures for every option available on the headend and tailend routers.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. interface tunnel-te number

3. ipv4 address A.B.C.D/prefix
or
ipv4 unnumbered interface-type interface-instance

4. switching transit switching type encoding encoding type

5. priority setup-priority hold-priority

6. signalled-bandwidth {bandwidth [class-type ct] | sub-pool bandwidth}

7. destination A.B.C.D

8. path-option path-id dynamic

9. direction [bidirectional]

10. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

interface tunnel-te number
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# interface tunnel-te1

Enters MPLS-TE interface configuration mode.

Step 3

ipv4 address A.B.C.D/prefix
or
ipv4 unnumbered interface-type interface-instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# ipv4 address
192.168.1.27 255.0.0.0

Specifies a primary or secondary IPv4 address for an interface.

•The network mask can be a four-part dotted decimal address. For example, 255.0.0.0 indicates that each bit equal to 1 means the corresponding address bit belongs to the network address.

•The network mask can be indicated as a slash (/) and a number (prefix length). The prefix length is a decimal value that indicates how many of the high-order contiguous bits of the address compose the prefix (the network portion of the address). A slash must precede the decimal value, and there is no space between the IP address and the slash.

or

•Enables IPv4 processing on a point-to-point interface without assigning an explicit IPv4 address to that interface.

Step 4

switching transit switching type encoding encoding type
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# switching transit lsc encoding sonetsdh

Specifies the switching capability and encoding types for all transit TE links used to signal the optical tunnel.

Step 5

priority setup-priority hold-priority
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# priority 1 1

Configures setup and reservation priorities for MPLS-TE tunnels.

Step 6

signalled-bandwidth {bandwidth [class-type ct] | sub-pool bandwidth}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# signalled-bandwidth 10 class-type 1

Sets the CT0 bandwidth required on this interface. Because the default tunnel priority is 7, tunnels use the default TE class map (namely, class-type 1, priority 7).

Step 7

destination A.B.C.D
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# destination 192.168.92.125

Assigns a destination address on the new tunnel.

•The destination address is the remote node's MPLS-TE router ID.

•The destination address is the merge point between backup and protected tunnels.

Step 8

path-option path-id dynamic
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# path-option l dynamic

Configures the dynamic path option and path ID.

Step 9

direction [bidirectional]
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# direction bidirection

Configures a bidirectional optical tunnel for GMPLS.

Step 10

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuring an Optical TE Tunnel Using Explicit Path Option

Perform this task to configure a numbered or unnumbered optical TE tunnel on a router. This task can apply to both the headend and tailend router.

Note You cannot configure dynamic tunnels on the tailend router.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. interface tunnel-te number

3. ipv4 address ipv4-address mask
or
ipv4 unnumbered interface-type interface-instance

4. passive

5. match identifier

6. destination A.B.C.D

7. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

interface type instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# interface POS9/0

Moves configuration to the interface level, directing subsequent configuration commands to the specified interface.

Step 2

interface tunnel-te number
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# interface POS9/0

Enters MPLS-TE interface configuration mode.

Step 3

ipv4 address ipv4-address mask
or
ipv4 unnumbered interface-type interface-instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# interface POS9/0

Specifies a primary or secondary IPv4 address for an interface.

•The network mask can be a four-part dotted decimal address. For example, 255.0.0.0 indicates that each bit equal to 1 means the corresponding address bit belongs to the network address.

•The network mask can be indicated as a slash (/) and a number (prefix length). The prefix length is a decimal value that indicates how many of the high-order contiguous bits of the address compose the prefix (the network portion of the address). A slash must precede the decimal value, and there is no space between the IP address and the slash.

or

•Enables IPv4 processing on a point-to-point interface without assigning an explicit IPv4 address to that interface.

Step 4

passive
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# passive

Configures a passive interface.

Note The tailend (passive) router does not signal the tunnel, it simply accepts a connection from the headend router. The tailend router supports the same configuration as the headend router.

Step 5

match identifier
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# match identifier

Configures the match identifier. You must enter the hostname for the head router then underscore _t, and the tunnel number for the head router. If tunnel-te1 is configured on the head router with a hostname of gmpls1, CLI is match identifier gmpls1_t1.

Note The match identifier must correspond to the tunnel-te number configured on the headend router. Together with the address specified using the destination keyword, this identifier uniquely identifies acceptable incoming tunnel requests.

Step 6

destination A.B.C.D
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# destination 192.168.92.125

Assigns a destination address on the new tunnel.

•The destination address is the remote node's MPLS-TE router ID.

•The destination address is the merge point between backup and protected tunnels.

Step 7

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuring LSP Hierarchy

This section describes the high-level steps required to configure LSP hierarchy. LSP hierarchy allows standard MPLS-TE tunnels to be established over GMPLS-TE tunnels.

Consider the following information when configuring LSP hierarchy:

•LSP hierarchy supports numbered optical TE tunnels with IPv4 addresses only.

•LSP hierarchy supports numbered optical TE tunnels using numbered or unnumbered TE links.

Note Before you can successfully configure LSP hierarchy, you must first establish a numbered optical tunnel between the headend and tailend routers, as described in Configuring Numbered and Unnumbered Optical TE Tunnels.

To configure LSP hierarchy, you must perform a series of tasks that have been previously described in this GMPLS configuration section. The tasks, which must be completed in the order presented, are as follows:

1. Establish an optical TE tunnel.

2. Configure an optical TE tunnel under IGP.

3. Configure the bandwidth on the optical TE tunnel.

4. Configure the optical TE tunnel as a TE link.

5. Configure an MPLS-TE tunnel.

Configuring Border Control Model

Border model lets you specify the optical core tunnels to be advertised to edge packet topologies. Using this model, the entire topology is stored in a separate packet instance, allowing packet networks where these optical tunnels are advertised to use LSP hierarchy to signal an MPLS tunnel over the optical tunnel.

Consider the following information when configuring protection and restoration:

•The GMPLS optical TE tunnel must be numbered and have a valid IPv4 address.

•The router ID used IGP area and instance must be consistent in all areas.

•The OSPF instance may be a numeric or alphanumeric.

Note Border model control functionality is provided for multiple IGP instances in one area or in multiple IGP areas.

To configure border control model functionality, you will perform a series of tasks that have been previously described in this GMPLS configuration section. The tasks, which must be completed in the order presented, are as follows:

1. Configure two optical tunnels on different interfaces.

Note When configuring IGP, you must keep the optical and packet topology information in separate routing tables.

2. Configure OSPF adjacency on each tunnel.

3. Configure bandwidth on each tunnel.

4. Configure packet tunnels.

Configuring Path Protection

This section provides the following sections to configure path protection:

•Configuring an LSP

•Forcing Reversion of the LSP

Configuring an LSP

Path protection is enabled on a tunnel by adding an additional path option configuration at the active end. The path can be configured either explicitly or dynamically.

When the dynamic option is used for both working and protecting LSPs, CSPF extensions are used to determine paths with different degrees of diversity. When the paths are computed, they are used over the lifetime of the LSPs. The nodes on the path of the LSP determine if the PSR is or is not for a given LSP. This determination is based on information that is obtained at signaling.

Perform this task to configure an LSP for an explicit path.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. interface tunnel-te number

3. ipv4 address ipv4-address mask
or
ipv4 unnumbered interface-type interface-instance

4. signalled-name name

5. switching transit capability switching type encoding encoding type

6. switching endpoint capability switching type encoding encoding type

7. priority setup-priority hold-priority

8. signalled-bandwidth {bandwidth [class-type ct] | sub-pool bandwidth}

9. destination A.B.C.D

10. direction [bidirectional]

11. path-option path-id explicit {name pathname | path-number}

12. path-option protecting path-id explicit {name pathname | path-number}

13. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

interface tunnel-te number
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# interface tunnel-te1

Enters tunnel-te interface configuration mode.

Step 3

ipv4 address ipv4-address mask
or
ipv4 unnumbered interface-type interface-instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# ipv4 address
99.99.99.2 255.255.255.254

Specifies a primary or secondary IPv4 address for an interface.

•The network mask can be a four-part dotted decimal address. For example, 255.0.0.0 indicates that each bit equal to 1 means the corresponding address bit belongs to the network address.

•The network mask can be indicated as a slash (/) and a number (prefix length). The prefix length is a decimal value that indicates how many of the high-order contiguous bits of the address compose the prefix (the network portion of the address). A slash must precede the decimal value, and there is no space between the IP address and the slash.

or

•Enables IPv4 processing on a point-to-point interface without assigning an explicit IPv4 address to that interface.

Step 4

signalled-name name
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# signalled-name tunnel-te1

Configures the name of the tunnel required for an MPLS TE tunnel.

•Use the name argument to specify that is used to signal the tunnel.

Step 5

switching transit capability switching type encoding encoding type
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# switching transit lsc encoding sonetsdh

Specifies the switching capability and encoding types for all transit TE links used to signal the optical tunnel to configure an optical LSP.

Step 6

switching endpoint capability switching type encoding encoding type
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# switching endpoint psc1 encoding sonetsdh

Specifies the switching capability and encoding types for all endpoint TE links used to signal the optical tunnel that is mandatory to set up the GMPLS LSP.

Step 7

priority setup-priority hold-priority
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# priority 2 2

Configures setup and reservation priorities for MPLS-TE tunnels.

Step 8

signalled-bandwidth {bandwidth [class-type ct] | sub-pool bandwidth}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# signalled-bandwidth 2488320

Configures the bandwidth required for an MPLS TE tunnel. The signalled-bandwidth command supports two bandwidth pools (class-types) for Diff-Serv Aware TE (DS-TE) feature.

Step 9

destination A.B.C.D
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# destination 24.24.24.24

Assigns a destination address on the new tunnel.

•The destination address is the remote node's MPLS-TE router ID.

•The destination address is the merge point between backup and protected tunnels.

Step 10

direction [bidirectional]
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# direction bidirection

Configures a bidirectional optical tunnel for GMPLS.

Step 11

path-option path-id explicit {name pathname | path-number}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# path-option l explicit name po4

Configures the explicit path option and path ID.

Step 12

path-option protecting path-id explicit {name pathname | path-number}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# path-option protecting 1 explicit name po6

Configures the path setup option to protect a path.

Step 13

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Forcing Reversion of the LSP

Perform this task to allow a forced reversion of the LSPs, which is only applicable to 1:1 LSP protection.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. mpls traffic-eng path-protection switchover {tunnel name | number}

3. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

mpls traffic-eng path-protection switchover {tunnel name | number}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# mpls traffic-eng path-protection switchover 1

Specifies a manual switchover for path protection for a GMPLS optical LSP. The tunnel ID is configured for a switchover.

The mpls traffic-eng path-protection switchover command must be issued on both head and tail router of the GMPLS LSP to achieve the complete path switchover at both ends.

Step 3

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuring Flexible Name-based Tunnel Constraints

To fully configure MPLS-TE Flexible Name-based Tunnel Constraints, you must complete the following high-level tasks in order:

1. Assigning Color Names to Numeric Values

2. Associating Affinity-Names with TE Links

3. Associating Affinity Constraints for TE Tunnels

Assigning Color Names to Numeric Values

The first task in enabling the new coloring scheme is to assign a numerical value (in hexadecimal) to each value (color).

Note An affinity color name cannot exceed 64 characters. An affinity value cannot exceed a single digit. For example, magenta1.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. mpls traffic-eng

3. affinity-map {affinity name | affinity value}

4. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS
Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

mpls traffic engineering
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# mpls traffic eng

Enters MPLS-TE mode.

Step 3

affinity-map {affinity name | affinity value}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# affinity-map red 1

Enters an affinity name, or a map value, using a color name (repeat this command to assign multiple colors up to a maximum of 64 colors).

An affinity color name cannot exceed 64 characters. The value you assign to a color name must be a single digit.
Step 4

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te)# commit
Saves configuration changes.

•When you issue the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before 
exiting(yes/no/cancel)? 
[cancel]:
–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•Use the commit command to save the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remain within the configuration session.
Associating Affinity-Names with TE Links

The next step in the configuration is to assign affinity names and values to TE links. You can assign up to a maximum of 32 colors. Before you assign a color to a link, you must define the name-to-value mapping for each color as described in Assigning Color Names to Numeric Values.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. mpls traffic-eng interface type instance

3. attribute-names color1 color2

4. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS
Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

mpls traffic-eng interface type instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# mpls traffic eng interface tunnel-te2

Enters MPLS-TE mode to configure an interface.

Step 3

attribute-names color1 color2
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if)# red

Assigns colors to TE links over the selected interface.
Step 4

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-mpls-te-if)# commit
Saves configuration changes.

•When you issue the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before 
exiting(yes/no/cancel)? 
[cancel]:
–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•Use the commit command to save the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remain within the configuration session.
Associating Affinity Constraints for TE Tunnels

The final step in the configuration of MPLS-TE Flexible Name-based Tunnel Constraints requires that you associate a tunnel with affinity constraints.

Using this model, there are no masks. Instead, there is support for four types of affinity constraints:

•include

•include-strict

•exclude

•exclude-all

Note For the affinity constraints above, all but the exclude-all constraint may be associated with up to 10 colors.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. interface tunnel-te tunnel-id

3. affinity index {include | include-strict | exclude | exclude-all} color

4. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS
Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

interface tunnel-te tunnel-id
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# interface tunnel-te 1

Selects the a tunnel/interface.

Step 3

affinity index {include | include-strict | exclude | exclude-all} color
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# affinity 0 include red

Enter link attributes for links comprising tunnel. UP TO TEN COLORS.

There can be multiple include statements under tunnel configuration as in the above configuration. With the following configuration, a link is eligible for CSPF if it has at least red color OR has at least green color. Thus, a link with red and any other colors as well as a link with green and any additional colors meet the above constraint.
Step 4

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# commit
Saves configuration changes.

•When you issue the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before 
exiting(yes/no/cancel)? 
[cancel]:
–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•Use the commit command to save the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remain within the configuration session.
Configuring IS-IS to Flood MPLS-TE Link Information

Perform this task to configure a router running the Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) protocol to flood MPLS-TE link information into multiple IS-IS levels.

This procedure shows how to enable MPLS-TE in both IS-IS Level 1 and Level 2.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. router isis instance-id

3. net network-entity-title

4. address-family {ipv4 | ipv6} {unicast}

5. metric-style wide

6. mpls traffic-eng level

7. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# interface POS9/0

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

router isis instance-id
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# router is-is 1

Enters an IS-IS instance.

Step 3

net network-entity-title
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-isis)# net 47.0001.0000.0000.0002.00

Enters an IS-IS network entity title (NET) for the routing process.

Step 4

address-family {ipv4 | ipv6} {unicast}
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-isis)# address-family ipv4 unicast

Enters address family configuration mode for configuring IS-IS routing that use IPv4 and IPv6 address prefixes.

Step 5

metric-style wide
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-isis-af)# metric-style wide

Enter the new-style type, length, and value (TLV) objects.

Step 6

mpls traffic-eng level
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-isis-af)# mpls traffic-eng level-1-2

Enter the required MPLS-TE level or levels.

Step 7

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuring an OSPF Area of MPLS-TE

Perform this task to configure an OSPF area for MPLS-TE in both the OSPF backbone area 0 and area 1.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. router ospf process-name

3. mpls traffic-eng router-id type-interface

4. area area-id

5. mpls traffic-eng

6. interface type-instance

7. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

router ospf process-name
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# router ospf 100

Enters a name that uniquely identifies an OSPF routing process. The process name is any alphanumeric string no longer than 40 characters without spaces.

Step 3

mpls traffic-eng router-id type instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-ospf)# mpls traffic-eng router-id Loopback0

MPLS interface type. For more information, use the question mark (?) online help function.

Step 4

area area-id
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-ospf)# area 0

Enters an OSPF area identifier. The area-id argument can be specified as either a decimal value or an IP address.

Step 5

mpls traffic-eng
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-ospf-ar)# area 0

Enters an OSPF area identifier. The area-id argument can be specified as either a decimal value or an IP address.

Step 6

interface type-instance
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-ospf-ar)# interface POS 0/2/0/0

Enters an interface type. For more information, use the question mark (?) online help function.

Step 7

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuring Explicit Paths with ABRs Configured as Loose Addresses

Perform this task to specify an ipv4 explicit path with ABRs configured as loose addresses.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. explicit-path name

3. index number next-address loose ipv4 unicast A.B.C.D

4. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# interface POS9/0

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

explicit-path name
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# explicit-path interarea1

Enters a name for the explicit path.

Step 3

index number next-address loose ipv4 unicast A.B.C.D
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-expl-path)# index 1 next-address loose ipv4 unicast 10.10.10.10

Includes a path entry at a specific index.

Step 4

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuring MPLS-TE Forwarding Adjacency

Perform this task to configure forwarding adjacency on a specific tunnel-te interface.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. configure

2. interface tunnel-te number

3. forwarding-adjacency holdtime value

4. end
or
commit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

configure
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# interface POS9/0

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 2

interface tunnel-te number
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# interface tunnel-te 1

Enters MPLS-TE interface configuration mode.

Step 3

forwarding-adjacency holdtime value
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# forwarding-adjacency holdtime 60

Configures forwarding adjacency using an optional specific holdtime value. By default, this value is 0 (milliseconds).

Step 4

end
or
commit
Example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# end
or

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-if)# commit

Saves configuration changes.

•When you enter the end command, the system prompts you to commit changes:
Uncommitted changes found, commit them before exiting (yes/no/cancel)? [cancel]:

–Entering yes saves configuration changes to the running configuration file, exits the configuration session, and returns the router to EXEC mode.

–Entering no exits the configuration session and returns the router to EXEC mode without committing the configuration changes.

–Entering cancel leaves the router in the current configuration session without exiting or committing the configuration changes.

•When you enter the commit command, the system saves the configuration changes to the running configuration file and remains within the configuration session.

Configuration Examples for Cisco MPLS-TE

This section provides the following examples:

•Configuring Fast Reroute and SONET APS: Example

•Building MPLS-TE Topology and Tunnels: Example

•Configuring IETF Diff-Serv TE Tunnels: Example

•Configuring GMPLS: Example

•Configuring Flexible Name-based Tunnel Constraints: Example

•Configuring an Interarea Tunnel: Example

•Configuring Forwarding Adjacency: Example

•Configuring MPLS-TE and Fast Reroute over Link Bundles: Example

Configuring Fast Reroute and SONET APS: Example

When SONET Automatic Protection Switching (APS) is configured on a router, it does not offer protection for tunnels; because of this limitation, fast reroute (FRR) still remains the protection mechanism for MPLS-TE.

When APS is configured in a SONET core network, an alarm might be generated toward a router downstream. If this router is configured with FRR, the hold-off timer must be configured at the SONET level to prevent FRR from being triggered while the core network is performing a restoration. Enter the following commands to configure the delay:
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:Route-3(config)# controller sonet 0/6/0/0 delay trigger line 250 
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:Route-3(config)# controller sonet 0/6/0/0 path delay trigger 300 
Building MPLS-TE Topology and Tunnels: Example

The following examples show how to build an OSPF and IS-IS topology:
(OSPF)
...
configure
  mpls traffic-eng
  interface pos 0/6/0/0
  router id loopback 0
  router ospf 1
  router-id 192.168.25.66
  area 0
  interface pos 0/6/0/0
  interface loopback 0
  mpls traffic-eng router-id loopback 0
  mpls traffic-eng area 0
  rsvp
  interface pos 0/6/0/0
  bandwidth 100
  commit
show mpls traffic-eng topology
show mpls traffic-eng link-management advertisement
!
(IS-IS)
...
configure
  mpls traffic-eng
  interface pos 0/6/0/0
  router id loopback 0
  router isis lab
  address-family ipv4 unicast
  mpls traffic-eng level 2
  mpls traffic-eng router-id Loopback 0
  !
  interface POS0/0/0/0
  address-family ipv4 unicast
!
The following example shows how to configure tunnel interfaces:

interface tunnel-te1
  destination 192.168.92.125
  ipv4 unnumbered loopback 0
  path-option l dynamic
  bandwidth 100
  commit
show mpls traffic-eng tunnels
show ipv4 interface brief
show mpls traffic-eng link-management admission-control
!
interface tunnel-te1
  autoroute announce
  route ipv4 192.168.12.52/32 tunnel-te1
  commit
ping 192.168.12.52
show mpls traffic autoroute
!
interface tunnel-te1
  fast-reroute
  mpls traffic-eng interface pos 0/6/0/0
  backup-path tunnel-te 2
  interface tunnel-te2
  backup-bw global-pool 5000
  ipv4 unnumbered loopback 0
  path-option l explicit name backup-path
  destination 192.168.92.125
commit
show mpls traffic-eng tunnels backup
show mpls traffic-eng fast-reroute database
!
rsvp
  interface pos 0/6/0/0
  bandwidth 100 150 sub-pool 50
  interface tunnel-te1
  bandwidth sub-pool 10
commit

Configuring IETF Diff-Serv TE Tunnels: Example

The following example shows how to configure DiffServ-TE.

rsvp
interface pos 0/6/0/0
bandwidth rdm 100 150 bc1 50
mpls traffic-eng
ds-te mode ietf
interface tunnel-te 1
bandwidth 10 class-type 1
commit

configure
rsvp interface 0/6/0/0
bandwidth mam max-reservable-bw 400 bc0 300 bc1 200
mpls traffic-eng
ds-te mode ietf
ds-te model mam
interface tunnel-te 1bandwidth 10 class-type 1
commit

Configuring GMPLS: Example

This section includes the following sample configuration example for GMPLS:

•Configuring Bidirectional Optical Tunnels Using TE Links: Example

Configuring Bidirectional Optical Tunnels Using TE Links: Example

This example shows how to set up headend and tailend routers with bidirectional optical unnumbered tunnels using numbered TE links.

Headend Router
router ospf roswell
 router-id 11.11.11.11
 nsf cisco
 area 23
 !
 area 51
  interface Loopback 0
  !
  interface MgmtEth0/0/CPU0/1
  !
  interface POS0/4/0/1
  !
 !
 mpls traffic-eng router-id Loopback 0
 mpls traffic-eng area 51
!
rsvp
 interface POS0/2/0/3
  bandwidth 2000
 !
!
interface tunnel-te1
 ipv4 unnumbered Loopback 0
 switching transit fsc encoding sonetsdh
 switching endpoint psc1 encoding packet
 priority 3 3
 signalled-bandwidth 500
 destination 55.55.55.55
 direction bidirectional
 path-option 1 dynamic
!
mpls traffic-eng
 interface POS0/2/0/3
  flooding-igp ospf roswell area 51
  switching key 1
   encoding packet
   capability psc1
  !
  switching link
   encoding sonetsdh
   capability fsc
  !
  lmp data-link adjacency
   neighbor gmpls5
   remote te-link-id ipv4 10.0.0.5
   remote interface-id unnum 12
   remote switching-capability psc1
  !
 !
 lmp neighbor gmpls5
  ipcc routed
  remote node-id 55.55.55.55
 !
!
Tailend Router
router ospf roswell
 router-id 55.55.55.55
 nsf cisco
 area 23
 !
 area 51
  interface Loopback 0
  !
  interface MgmtEth0/0/CPU0/1
  !
  interface POS0/4/0/2
  !
 !
 mpls traffic-eng router-id Loopback 0
 mpls traffic-eng area 51
!
mpls traffic-eng
 interface POS0/2/0/3
  flooding-igp ospf roswell area 51
  switching key 1
   encoding packet
   capability psc1
  !
  switching link
   encoding sonetsdh
   capability fsc
  !
  lmp data-link adjacency
   neighbor gmpls1
   remote te-link-id ipv4 10.0.0.1
   remote interface-id unnum 12
   remote switching-capability psc1
  !
 !
 lmp neighbor gmpls1
  ipcc routed
  remote node-id 11.11.11.11
 !
!
rsvp
 interface POS0/2/0/3
  bandwidth 2000
 !
!
interface tunnel-te1
 ipv4 unnumbered Loopback 0
 passive
 match identifier head_router_hostname_t1
 destination 11.11.11.11
!
Configuring Flexible Name-based Tunnel Constraints: Example

The following configuration shows the three-step process used to configure Flexible Name-based Tunnel Constraints.
R2
line console
 exec-timeout 0 0
 width 250
!
logging console debugging
explicit-path name mypath
 index 1 next-address loose ipv4 unicast 3.3.3.3 !
explicit-path name ex_path1
 index 10 next-address loose ipv4 unicast 2.2.2.2  index 20 next-address loose ipv4 
unicast 3.3.3.3 !
interface Loopback0
 ipv4 address 22.22.22.22 255.255.255.255 !
interface tunnel-te1
 ipv4 unnumbered Loopback0
 signalled-bandwidth 1000000
 destination 3.3.3.3
 affinity include green
 affinity include yellow
 affinity exclude white
 affinity exclude orange
 path-option 1 dynamic
!
router isis 1
 is-type level-1
 net 47.0001.0000.0000.0001.00
 nsf cisco
 address-family ipv4 unicast
  metric-style wide
  mpls traffic-eng level-1
  mpls traffic-eng router-id Loopback0
 !
 interface Loopback0
  passive
  address-family ipv4 unicast
  !
 !
 interface GigabitEthernet0/1/0/0
  address-family ipv4 unicast
  !
 !
 interface GigabitEthernet0/1/0/1
  address-family ipv4 unicast
  !
 !
 interface GigabitEthernet0/1/0/2
  address-family ipv4 unicast
  !
 !
 interface GigabitEthernet0/1/0/3
  address-family ipv4 unicast
  !
 !
!
rsvp
 interface GigabitEthernet0/1/0/0
  bandwidth 1000000 1000000
 !
 interface GigabitEthernet0/1/0/1
  bandwidth 1000000 1000000
 !
 interface GigabitEthernet0/1/0/2
  bandwidth 1000000 1000000
 !
 interface GigabitEthernet0/1/0/3
  bandwidth 1000000 1000000
 !
!
mpls traffic-eng
 interface GigabitEthernet0/1/0/0
  attribute-names red purple
 !
 interface GigabitEthernet0/1/0/1
  attribute-names red orange
 !
 interface GigabitEthernet0/1/0/2
  attribute-names green purple
 !
 interface GigabitEthernet0/1/0/3
  attribute-names green orange
 !
 affinity-map red 1
 affinity-map blue 2
 affinity-map black 80
 affinity-map green 4
 affinity-map white 40
 affinity-map orange 20
 affinity-map purple 10
 affinity-map yellow 8
!
Configuring an Interarea Tunnel: Example

The following configuration exampls show how to configure a traffic engineering interarea tunnel. Router R1 is the headend for tunnel1, and router R2 (20.0.0.20) is the tailend. Tunnel1 is configured with a path option that is loosely routed through Ra and Rb.

Note Specifying the tunnel tailend in the loosely router path is optional.
configure
interface Tunnel-te1
ipv4 unnumbered Loopback0
destination 192.168.20.20
signalled-bandwidth 300
path-option 1 explicit name path-tunnel1
explicit-path name path-tunnel1
next-address loose 192.168.40.40
next-address loose 192.168.60.60
next-address loose 192.168.20.20 
Note Generally for an interarea tunnel you should configure multiple loosely routed path options that specify different combinations of ABRs (for OSPF) or level-1-2 boundary routers (for IS-IS) to increase the likelihood that the tunnel is successfully signaled. In this simple topology there are no other loosely routed paths.

Configuring Forwarding Adjacency: Example

The following configuration example shows how to configure an MPLS-TE forwarding adjacency on tunnel-te 68 with a holdime value of 60:

configure
interface tunnel-te 68
forwarding-adjacency holdtime 60
commit

Configuring MPLS-TE and Fast Reroute over Link Bundles: Example

The following configuration example shows how to configure MPLS-TE and FRR over link bundles for POS and Ethernet bundle interfaces:
configure
 mpls traffic-eng
  interface Bundle-POS 1
   backup-path tunnel-te 1
   !
  !
 !
  interface Bundle-Ether 1
   backup-path tunnel-te 1
   !
  !
 !
  interface Bundle-Ether1.100
   backup-path tunnel-te 1
   !
  !
 !
Additional References

For additional information related to implementing MPLS-TE, refer to the following references:

Related Documents

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MPLS-TE commands

MPLS Traffic Engineering Commands on Cisco IOS XR Software, Release 3.4.0

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Cisco IOS XR Getting Started Guide, Release 3.4.0

Information about user groups and task IDs

Configuring AAA Services on Cisco IOS XR Software module of the Cisco IOS XR System Security Configuration Guide, Release 3.4.0

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