Chapter 6 Review Questions & Answers

1: What transport mechanism is used for neighbor discovery between directly connected LDP peers?
A1: Answer: The all routers multicast address (UDP 224.0.0.2) is used.
2: What is the LIB?
A2: Answer: The Label Information Base (LIB) contains all bindings. This includes all local label bindings and all label bindings received from peer LSRs (assuming liberal label retention).
3: What is the LFIB?
A3: Answer: The LFIB is the Label Forwarding Information Base. The LFIB stores only those label bindings used for forwarding.
4: What is a VRF?
A4: Answer: A VPN Routing and Forwarding instance.
5: How are overlapping customer address spaces disambiguated in the MPLS VPN backbone?
A5: Answer: A Route Distinguisher (RD) is used ...

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