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Traffic Engineering with MPLS
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Traffic Engineering with MPLS

by Eric CCIE #4122 Osborne, Ajay CCIE #2970 Simha
July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
14h 52m
English
Cisco Press
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Link Manager

Underneath a lot of externally visible RSVP and MPLS things is something called the link manager. The link manager's job is to track interface-related stuff with regard to MPLS Traffic Engineering. Specifically, the link manager keeps track of the following:

  • Flooding— What information to flood and when to flood it

  • Admission control— When an RSVP message comes in, whether to allow it or deny it

The link manager isn't really something you can configure. However, it's useful to know it's there.

The link manager has several things you can look at, as demonstrated in Example 4-45.

Example 4-45. Displaying Link Manager Capabilities
gsr2#show mpls traffic-eng link-management ? admission-control Link Management admission-control advertisements ...
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