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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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Forwarding DS-TE Traffic Down a Tunnel

Chapter 5 covered three different methods of forwarding traffic down a tunnel:

  • Static routes

  • Policy-based routing (PBR)

  • Autoroute

How do you forward traffic down a DS-TE tunnel? The only thing different between regular TE tunnels and DS-TE tunnels is the subpool from which they reserve bandwidth. How-ever, there are some things you need to think about when trying to get traffic to a DS-TE tunnel.

All three of these methods work the same way on DS-TE tunnels as they do on regular TE tunnels. Out of the three, autoroute is generally the easiest method to use; it requires only one command on the headend, and all traffic destined for or behind the tail is sent down the tunnel.

The problem with autoroute and DS-TE ...

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