
Operation Manual – MPLS TE
H3C S9500 Series Routing Switches
Chapter 1 MPLS TE Configuration
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1.10 Configuring Traffic Forwarding Tuning Parameters
In MPLS TE, you may configure traffic forwarding tuning parameters such as the failed
link timer and flooding thresholds to change paths that IP or MPLS traffic flows traverse
or to define type of traffic that may travel down a TE tunnel.
1.10.1 Configuration Prerequisites
The configurations described in this section are used in conjunction with CSPF and the
dynamic signaling protocol RSVP-TE.
1.10.2 Configuration Procedure
Configuring traffic forwarding tuning parameters involves these tasks:
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Configuring the failed link timer
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Configuring flooding thresholds
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Configuring the link metric used for routing a tunnel
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Configuring the traffic flow type of a tunnel
I. Configuring the failed link timer
A CSPF failed link timer starts once a link goes down. If IGP removes or modifies the
link before the timer expires, CSPF will update information about the link in TEDB and
stops the timer. If IGP does not remove or modify the link before the timer expires, the
state of the link in TEDB will change to up.
Follow these steps to configure failed link timer:
To do…
Use command to…
Remarks
Enter system view
system-view
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Enter MPLS view
mpls
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Configure the CSPF failed
link timer
mpls te cspf timer
failed-link
timer-interval
Optional
The default is 10 seconds.
II. Configuring flooding thresholds
After bandwidths of links regulated by MPLS TE change, CSPF may need to
recalculate paths. This tends to be resource consuming as recalculation involves IGP
flooding. To reduce recalculations and flood only significant changes, you may
configure the following two IGP flooding thresholds in percentages:
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Up threshold. When the percentage of available-bandwidth increase to the
maximum reservable bandwidth exceeds the threshold, the change is flooded.
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Down threshold. When the percentage of available-bandwidth decrease to the
maximum reservable bandwidth exceeds the threshold, the change is flooded.