Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Loop prevention in MPLS


  • LDP learns best routes from IGP.
  • IGP will give best loop free paths.
  • If the IGP have loops, MPLS TTL stops the forwarding of packet
    • by TTL run from 255 to 0.
    • for every switching of packet TTL will be decremented by 1.
  • The initial TTL MPLS use in the label is copied from original IP packet TTL.