MPLS Standards

The JUNOS software supports the following RFCs and Internet drafts related to MPLS:

• RFC 3031, Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture (provides a good overview of MPLS)
• RFC 3032, MPLS Label Stack Encoding
• Internet draft draft-ietf-mpls-icmp-02.txt, ICMP Extensions for Multiprotocol Label Switching (expires February 2001)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-06.txt, Detecting MPLS Data Plane Failures (only the LDP IPv4 prefix TLV, RSVP IPv4 Session Query TLV, and VPN IPv4 prefix TLV) (no expiration; revised July 2004)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-mpls-soft-preemption-02.txt, MPLS Traffic Engineering Soft Preemption (no expiration; revised March 2004)
• Internet draft draft-raggarwa-mpls-p2mp-te-02.txt (except non-adjacent signaling for sub-LSPs, make-before-break and fast reroute, and LSP hierarchy using P2P LSPs), Establishing Point to Multipoint MPLS TE LSPs (no expiration; revised January 2004)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-mpls-p2mp-requirement-01.txt, Requirements for Point to Multipoint Extensions to RSVP-TE (no expiration; revised January 2004)

The following documents provide information about traffic engineering:

• RFC 2702, Requirements for Traffic Engineering Over MPLS
• Internet draft draft-ietf-isis-traffic-04.txt, IS-IS Extensions for Traffic Engineering (expires February 2002)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-tewg-diff-te-mam-03.txt, Maximum Allocation Bandwidth Constraints Model for Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering (expires September 2004)
• Internet draft draft-katz-yeung-ospf-traffic-06.txt, Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF (expires April 2002)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-lsp-fastreroute-03.txt, Fast Reroute Extensions to RSVP-TE for LSP Tunnels (expires June 2003)

To access Internet RFCs and drafts, go to the IETF Web site at http://www.ietf.org.

The JUNOS software supports a proprietary Management Information Base (MIB) for MPLS objects; see the JUNOS Network Management Configuration Guide for more information.