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Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Forwarding Equivalence Class To Next Hop Label Forwarding Entry (FEC-To-NHLFE) Management Information Base (MIB)
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Network Working Group T. Nadeau
Request for Comments: 3814 Cisco Systems, Inc.
Category: Standards Track C. Srinivasan
Bloomberg L.P.
A. Viswanathan
Force10 Networks, Inc.
June 2004
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Forwarding Equivalence
Class To Next Hop Label Forwarding Entry (FEC-To-NHLFE)
Management Information Base (MIB)
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004).
Abstract
This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB)
for use with network management protocols in the Internet community.
In particular, it describes managed objects for defining,
configuring, and monitoring Forwarding Equivalence Class (FEC) to
Next Hop Label Forwarding Entry (NHLFE) mappings and corresponding
actions for use with Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS).
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Conventions Used In This Document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. The Internet-Standard Management Framework . . . . . . . . . . 3
5. Outline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5.1. mplsFTNTable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5.1.1. Advantages of Address Ranges Over CIDR Prefixes. 4
5.2. mplsFTNMapTable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5.2.1. Indexing Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5.2.2. How the Current Indexing Works . . . . . . . . . 5
5.3. mplsFTNPerfTable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. Avoiding Retrieval-Modification Interactions . . . . . . . . . 7
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