Terms and Acronyms

forwarding adjacency—A forwarding path for sending data between peer devices in an RSVP LSP tunnel network.
forwarding adjacency LSP (FA-LSP)—A hierarchical RSVP LSP that provides a tunnel-like forwarding adjacency for other packet-based LSPs.
Link Management Protocol—A protocol used to define forwarding adjacencies between RSVP LSP tunnel peers and to maintain and allocate resources on traffic engineering links (TE links).
traffic engineering link (TE link)—A logical connection between devices used to support RSVP LSP tunnels. TE links can have addresses or IDs and are associated with certain resources or interfaces. Each TE link represents a forwarding adjacency between a pair of devices.