
Operation Manual – MPLS TE
H3C S9500 Series Routing Switches
Chapter 1 MPLS TE Configuration
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Note:
For a tunnel, the tie breaker configured in MPLS TE tunnel interface view is preferred to
the one configured in MPLS view. If no tie breaker is configured in MPLS TE tunnel
interface view, the one configured in MPLS view applies.
II. Configuring route pinning
Route pinning cannot be used together with reoptimization.
Follow these steps to configure route pinning:
To do…
Use command to…
Remarks
Enter system view
system-view
––
Enter MPLS TE tunnel
interface view
interface
tunnel
tunnel-number
––
Enable route pinning
mpls te route-pinning
Required
Disabled by default
Submit current tunnel
configuration
mpls te commit
Required.
III. Configuring administrative group and affinity attribute
The affinity attribute of an MPLS TE tunnel identifies the properties of the links that the
tunnel can use. Together with the link administrative group, it decides which links the
MPLS TE tunnel can use. This is done by ANDing the 32-bit affinity attribute with the
32-bit link administrative group attribute. When doing that, a 32-bit mask is used. The
affinity bits corresponding to the 1s in the mask are “do care” bits which must be
considered while those corresponding to the 0s in the mask are “don’t care” bits.
For a link to be used by a TE tunnel, at least one considered affinity bit and its
corresponding administrative group bit must be set to 1.
Suppose the affinity of an MPLS TE tunnel is 0xFFFFFFFF and the mask is
0x0000FFFF. For a link to be used by the tunnel, the leftmost 16 bits of its
administrative group attribute can be 0s or 1s, but at least one of the rest bits must be 1.
The affinity of an MPLS TE tunnel is configured at the first node on the tunnel and then
signaled to the rest nodes through RSVP-TE.