Ldp Operation - HP MSR2000 Configuration Manual

Discovery messages—Declare and maintain the presence of LSRs, such as Hello messages.
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• Session messages—Establish, maintain, and terminate sessions between LDP peers, such as
Initialization messages used for parameter negotiation and Keepalive messages used to maintain
sessions.
Advertisement messages—Create, alter, and remove FEC-label mappings, such as Label Mapping
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messages used to advertise FEC-label mappings.
Notification messages—Provide advisory information and notify errors, such as Notification
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messages.
LDP uses UDP to transport discovery messages for efficiency, and uses TCP to transport session,
advertisement, and notification messages for reliability.

LDP operation

LDP operates in the following phases:
Discovering and maintaining LDP peers
LDP discovers peers in the following ways:
• Basic Discovery—Sends Link Hello messages to multicast address 224.0.0.2 that identifies all
routers on the subnet. All directly-connected LSRs can discover the LSR and establish a hello
adjacency.
Extended Discovery—Sends LDP Targeted Hello messages to a specific IP address. The destination
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LSR can discover the LSR and establish a hello adjacency. This mechanism is mainly used in MPLS
L2VPN and LDP over MPLS TE. For more information, see "Configuring MPLS L2VPN" and
"Configuring MPLS TE."
LDP can establish two hello adjacencies with a directly-connected neighbor through both discovery
mechanisms. It sends Hello messages at the hello interval to maintain a hello adjacency. If LDP receives
no Hello message from a hello adjacency before the hello hold timer expires, it removes the hello
adjacency.
Establishing and maintaining LDP sessions
LDP establishes a session with a peer in the following steps:
1. Establishes a TCP connection with the neighbor.
2. Negotiates session parameters such as LDP version, label distribution method, and Keepalive timer,
and establishes an LDP session with the neighbor if the negotiation succeeds.
After a session is established, LDP sends LDP PDUs (an LDP PDU carries one or more LDP messages) to
maintain the session. If no information is exchanged between the LDP peers within the Keepalive interval,
LDP sends Keepalive messages at the Keepalive interval to maintain the session. If LDP receives no LDP
PDU from a neighbor before the keepalive hold timer expires, or the last hello adjacency with the
neighbor is removed, LDP terminates the session.
LDP can also send a Shutdown message to a neighbor to terminate the LDP session.
Establishing LSPs
LDP classifies FECs according to destination IP addresses in IP routing entries, creates FEC-label
mappings, and advertises the mappings to LDP peers through LDP sessions. After an LDP peer receives
an FEC-label mapping, it uses the received label and the label locally assigned to that FEC to create an
LFIB entry for that FEC. When all LSRs (from the Ingress to the Egress) establish an LFIB entry for the FEC,
an LSP is established exclusively for the FEC.
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