July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
14h 52m
English
Before diving into the what, when, and how of information distribution, you need to be aware of a few prerequisites. If your network doesn't have these enabled, you won't be able to get started in MPLS Traffic Engineering. You need the following:
A release of the Cisco IOS Software that supports MPLS Traffic Engineering
Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) enabled in your network
A link-state routing protocol (OSPF or IS-IS) as your Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP)
Traffic engineering enabled globally on the router
A loopback interface to use as your MPLS Traffic Engineering router ID (RID)
Basic TE tunnel configuration
MPLS Traffic Engineering support for IS-IS was first included in Cisco IOS Software Releases 12.0(5)S ...
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