sorry, yes. i was referring to SRTE wrt the pop operation. in most of the implementations i've poked at, there is the ability to specify a consistent label range, but it's not always the case. SIDs are not labels but they are encoded as labels. i hope operators have the option to configure common/consistent label ranges, but i don't necessarily assume it. tooling to resolve this will be required just as in the LDP world.
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 9:19 AM Saku Ytti <s...@ytti.fi> wrote: > Hey Steve, > > > the data plane behavior on LDP is swap oriented, while the data plane on > SR > > is pop oriented. depending on the hardware capabilities in use this may > > have (subtle) traffic engineering or diagnostic implications at a > minimum. > > folks will likely have to build tooling to address this. > > I think you're thinking of SR-TE, SR in normal LDP-like use case would be > single > egress label with swap on LSRs. > > Ingress PE would figure out label by using egress PE index as an > offset to next-hop > P's label range. > Nexthop P would swap the label determining out label using same mechanism. > > I practice operators would configure same label range in every box, so > swap would be > from same label to same label. But that is purely due to operator > configuration, and > it's still swap. > > -- > ++ytti > -- steve ulrich (sulrich@botwerks.*)
