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Link Manager

Underneath a lot of externally visible RSVP and MPLS things is something called the link manager. The link manager's job is to track interface-related stuff with regard to MPLS Traffic Engineering. Specifically, the link manager keeps track of the following:

  • Flooding— What information to flood and when to flood it

  • Admission control— When an RSVP message comes in, whether to allow it or deny it

The link manager isn't really something you can configure. However, it's useful to know it's there.

The link manager has several things you can look at, as demonstrated in Example 4-45.

Example 4-45 Displaying Link Manager Capabilities

gsr2#show mpls traffic-eng link-management ?

  admission-control     Link Management admission-control

  advertisements        Link Management advertisements

  bandwidth-allocation  Link Management bandwidth-allocation

  igp-neighbors         Link Management igp-neighbors

  interfaces            Link Management Traffic Engineering interfaces

  statistics            Link Management Traffic Engineering statistics

  summary               Link Management summary

The following sections provide output from each of these commands, along with some comments. Figure 4-43 shows the topology used in the link manager examples.

Figure 4-43. Network Topology for the Link Manager Examples

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There are 50 2-Mbps tunnels from gsr4 to gsr8 and 50 1-Mbps tunnels from gsr8 to gsr4.

All these commands were done on gsr4, so the link manager output is consistent with the other output in this chapter.

Most of these commands also take an interface as an optional argument, but the command output doesn't change other than showing you the interface you specify.

show mpls traffic-eng link-management admission-control Command

As Example 4-46 demonstrates, this command shows all the LSPs that the admission control portion of the link manager is aware of. The STATE of Resv Admitted means that a Resv for this tunnel has been sent, and everything is good. There can be other states for LSPs that are in the process of being set up or torn down. In the far-right column, the R means that the bandwidth has been reserved with a Resv. If the display has a tunnel that has an H instead of an R, this indicates that the bandwidth is being held. This means that the router has seen a Path message for a tunnel but has not yet seen the Resv.

The G next to the R means that the bandwidth reserved for this tunnel was reserved from the global pool rather than the subpool (see the section "DiffServ-Aware Traffic Engineering (DS-TE)" in Chapter 6).

Example 4-46 show mpls traffic-eng link-management admission-control Command Output

gsr5#show mpls traffic-eng link-management admission-control

System Information::

    Tunnels Count:        100

    Tunnels Selected:     100

TUNNEL ID              UP IF     DOWN IF  PRIORITY STATE           BW (kbps)

192.168.1.4 1_16       PO4/1     PO4/2    7/7      Resv Admitted   2000       RG

192.168.1.4 2_15       PO4/1     PO4/2    7/7      Resv Admitted   2000       RG

192.168.1.4 3_15       PO4/1     PO4/2    7/7      Resv Admitted   2000       RG

192.168.1.4 4_15       PO4/1     PO4/2    7/7      Resv Admitted   2000       RG

192.168.1.4 5_15       PO4/1     PO4/2    7/7      Resv Admitted   2000       RG

192.168.1.4 6_15       PO4/1     PO4/2    7/7      Resv Admitted   2000       RG

192.168.1.4 7_15       PO4/1     PO4/2    7/7      Resv Admitted   2000       RG

192.168.1.4 8_15       PO4/1     PO4/2    7/7      Resv Admitted   2000       RG

192.168.1.4 9_15       PO4/1     PO4/2    7/7      Resv Admitted   2000       RG

192.168.1.4 10_15      PO4/1     PO4/2    7/7      Resv Admitted   2000       RG

...

show mpls traffic-eng link-management advertisements Command

As demonstrated in Example 4-47, this command shows the information that the link manager floods when it asks the IGP to flood. Information for each link on the router is shown. On Link ID 0 (the link between gsr5 and gsr4), at priority 7, the reservable bandwidth is 66,250 Kbps, whereas it's 116,250 Kbps at every other priority. This is because of the 50 1-Mb tunnels from gsr8 to gsr2; these tunnels all have setup and holding priorities of 7, so tunnels with a better priority see the full 116,250 Kb available to them.

The same thing is true on Link ID 1 between gsr5 and gsr6. The 50 2-Mbps tunnels from gsr4 to gsr8 mean that the remaining bandwidth at priority 7 is 16,250 Kbps.

Example 4-47 show mpls traffic-eng link-management advertisements Command Output (Continued)

gsr5#show mpls traffic-eng link-management advertisements

Flooding Status:      ready

Configured Areas:     3

IGP Area[1] ID::  isis  level-1

  System Information::

    Flooding Protocol:    ISIS

  Header Information::

    IGP System ID:        0168.0001.0005.00

    MPLS TE Router ID:    192.168.1.5

    Flooded Links:        2

  Link ID::  0

    Link Subnet Type:     Point-to-Point

    Link IP Address:      192.168.3.5

    IGP Neighbor:         ID 0168.0001.0004.00, IP 192.168.3.4

    TE metric:            10

    IGP metric:           10

    Physical Bandwidth:   155000 kbits/sec

    Res. Global BW:       116250 kbits/sec

    Res. Sub BW:          0 kbits/sec

    Downstream::

                                Global Pool   Sub Pool

                                -----------   ----------

      Reservable Bandwidth[0]:       116250            0 kbits/sec

      Reservable Bandwidth[1]:       116250            0 kbits/sec

      Reservable Bandwidth[2]:       116250            0 kbits/sec

      Reservable Bandwidth[3]:       116250            0 kbits/sec

      Reservable Bandwidth[4]:       116250            0 kbits/sec

      Reservable Bandwidth[5]:       116250            0 kbits/sec

      Reservable Bandwidth[6]:       116250            0 kbits/sec

      Reservable Bandwidth[7]:        66250            0 kbits/sec

    Attribute Flags:      0x00000000

  Link ID::  1

    Link Subnet Type:     Point-to-Point

    Link IP Address:      192.168.10.5

    IGP Neighbor:         ID 0168.0001.0006.00, IP 192.168.10.6

    TE metric:            10

    IGP metric:           10

    Physical Bandwidth:   155000 kbits/sec

    Res. Global BW:       116250 kbits/sec

    Res. Sub BW:          0 kbits/sec

    Downstream::

                                Global Pool   Sub Pool

                                -----------   ----------

      Reservable Bandwidth[0]:       116250            0 kbits/sec

      Reservable Bandwidth[1]:       116250            0 kbits/sec

      Reservable Bandwidth[2]:       116250            0 kbits/sec

      Reservable Bandwidth[3]:       116250            0 kbits/sec

      Reservable Bandwidth[4]:       116250            0 kbits/sec

      Reservable Bandwidth[5]:       116250            0 kbits/sec

      Reservable Bandwidth[6]:       116250            0 kbits/sec

      Reservable Bandwidth[7]:        16250            0 kbits/sec

    Attribute Flags:      0x00000000

show mpls traffic-eng link-management bandwidth-allocation Command

This command shows a few interesting things. Some of the output, as demonstrated in Example 4-48, is the same as show mpls traffic-eng link-manager advertisements, but not all of it. In particular, the flooding thresholds (discussed in Chapter 3) are displayed, as well as the amount of reserved bandwidth at each priority level. The 50 Mbps and 100 Mbps of reserved bandwidth from the tunnels between gsr4 and gsr8 show up here as well.

The BW HELD state is a temporary state that bandwidth is put in when a Path message has been seen for a tunnel, but not a Resv. It's difficult to see values in the BW HELD/TOTALBW HELD columns in the real world, because tunnel setup takes only a few seconds at most. If you see bandwidth constantly in the HELD/TOTAL HELD columns, it's likely an indication of problems.

Example 4-48 show mpls traffic-eng link-management bandwidth-allocation Command Output

gsr5#show mpls traffic-eng link-management bandwidth-allocation

System Information::

    Links Count:          2

    Bandwidth Hold Time:  max. 15 seconds

Link ID::  PO4/1 (192.168.3.5)

    Link Status:

      Physical Bandwidth:   155000 kbits/sec

      Max Res Global BW:    116250 kbits/sec (reserved: 0% in, 43% out)

      Max Res Sub BW:       0 kbits/sec (reserved: 100% in, 100% out)

      BW Descriptors:       50

      MPLS TE Link State:   MPLS TE on, RSVP on, admin-up

      Inbound Admission:    allow-all

      Outbound Admission:   allow-if-room

      Admin. Weight:        10 (IGP)

      IGP Neighbor Count:   1

      Up Thresholds:        15 30 45 60 75 80 85 90 95 96 97 98 99 100 (default)

      Down Thresholds:      100 99 98 97 96 95 90 85 80 75 60 45 30 15 (default)

    Downstream Global Pool Bandwidth Information (kbits/sec):

      KEEP PRIORITY     BW HELD  BW TOTAL HELD   BW LOCKED  BW TOTAL LOCKED

                  0           0              0           0                0

                  1           0              0           0                0

                  2           0              0           0                0

                  3           0              0           0                0

                  4           0              0           0                0

                  5           0              0           0                0

                  6           0              0           0                0

                  7           0              0       50000            50000

    Downstream Sub Pool Bandwidth Information (kbits/sec):

      KEEP PRIORITY     BW HELD  BW TOTAL HELD   BW LOCKED  BW TOTAL LOCKED

                  0           0              0           0                0

                  1           0              0           0                0

                  2           0              0           0                0

                  3           0              0           0                0

                  4           0              0           0                0

                  5           0              0           0                0

                  6           0              0           0                0

                  7           0              0           0                0

Link ID::  PO4/2 (192.168.10.5)

    Link Status:

      Physical Bandwidth:   155000 kbits/sec

      Max Res Global BW:    116250 kbits/sec (reserved: 0% in, 86% out)

      Max Res Sub BW:       0 kbits/sec (reserved: 100% in, 100% out)

      BW Descriptors:       50

      MPLS TE Link State:   MPLS TE on, RSVP on, admin-up

      Inbound Admission:    allow-all

      Outbound Admission:   allow-if-room

      Admin. Weight:        10 (IGP)

      IGP Neighbor Count:   1

      Up Thresholds:        15 30 45 60 75 80 85 90 95 96 97 98 99 100 (default)

      Down Thresholds:      100 99 98 97 96 95 90 85 80 75 60 45 30 15 (default)

    Downstream Global Pool Bandwidth Information (kbits/sec):

      KEEP PRIORITY     BW HELD  BW TOTAL HELD   BW LOCKED  BW TOTAL LOCKED

                  0           0              0           0                0

                  1           0              0           0                0

                  2           0              0           0                0

                  3           0              0           0                0

                  4           0              0           0                0

                  5           0              0           0                0

                  6           0              0           0                0

                  7           0              0      100000           100000

    Downstream Sub Pool Bandwidth Information (kbits/sec):

      KEEP PRIORITY     BW HELD  BW TOTAL HELD   BW LOCKED  BW TOTAL LOCKED

                  0           0              0           0                0

                  1           0              0           0                0

                  2           0              0           0                0

                  3           0              0           0                0

                  4           0              0           0                0

                  5           0              0           0                0

                  6           0              0           0                0

                  7           0              0           0                0

show mpls traffic-eng link-management igp-neighbors Command

As the output in Example 4-49 demonstrates, this command just shows what neighbors exist on any links configured for traffic engineering. Information about a TE link is not flooded unless an IGP neighbor exists on that link. If a neighbor doesn't exist to send a Resv to, the rest of the network doesn't need to know about the link.

Example 4-49 show mpls traffic-eng link-management igp-neighbors Command Output

gsr5#show mpls traffic-eng link-management igp-neighbors

Link ID::  PO4/1

    Neighbor ID:  0168.0001.0004.00 (area: isis  level-1, IP: 192.168.3.4)

Link ID::  PO4/2

    Neighbor ID:  0168.0001.0006.00 (area: isis  level-1, IP: 192.168.10.6)

show mpls traffic-eng link-management interfaces Command

This command shows much the same information as the other commands. The only difference is that the flooding status for each link is also shown, as demonstrated in Example 4-50.

Example 4-50 show mpls traffic-eng link-management interfaces Command Output

gsr5#show mpls traffic-eng link-management interfaces

System Information::

    Links Count:          2

Link ID::  PO4/1 (192.168.3.5)

    Link Status:

      Physical Bandwidth:   155000 kbits/sec

      Max Res Global BW:    116250 kbits/sec (reserved: 0% in, 43% out)

      Max Res Sub BW:       0 kbits/sec (reserved: 100% in, 100% out)

      MPLS TE Link State:   MPLS TE on, RSVP on, admin-up

      Inbound Admission:    allow-all

      Outbound Admission:   allow-if-room

      Admin. Weight:        10 (IGP)

      IGP Neighbor Count:   1

      IGP Neighbor:         ID 0168.0001.0004.00, IP 192.168.3.4 (Up)

    Flooding Status for each configured area [1]:

      IGP Area[1]:  isis  level-1:  flooded

Link ID::  PO4/2 (192.168.10.5)

    Link Status:

      Physical Bandwidth:   155000 kbits/sec

      Max Res Global BW:    116250 kbits/sec (reserved: 0% in, 86% out)

      Max Res Sub BW:       0 kbits/sec (reserved: 100% in, 100% out)

      MPLS TE Link State:   MPLS TE on, RSVP on, admin-up

      Inbound Admission:    allow-all

      Outbound Admission:   allow-if-room

      Admin. Weight:        10 (IGP)

      IGP Neighbor Count:   1

      IGP Neighbor:         ID 0168.0001.0006.00, IP 192.168.10.6 (Up)

    Flooding Status for each configured area [1]:

      IGP Area[1]:  isis  level-1:  flooded

show mpls traffic-eng link-management statistics Command

As demonstrated in Example 4-51, this command shows some statistics about RSVP messages sent on each link. Up Path and Up Resv are Path and Resv messages received on the interface (from the upstream router), and Down Path and Down Resv are messages sent on the interface (to the downstream router). Because this router has only two links active in MPLS Traffic Engineering, any message received in Up Path on one link is also counted in Down Path on the other link, and vice versa.

This output was taken right after both tunnels came up for the first time. So you see two setup requests (both of which were admitted) on the Up interface and on the Down interface.

Example 4-51 show mpls traffic-eng link-management statistics Command Output

gsr5#show mpls traffic-eng link-management statistics

System Information::

  LSP Admission Statistics:

    Path:       138 setup requests, 138 admits, 0 rejects, 0 setup errors

                38 tear requests, 0 preempts, 0 tear errors

    Resv:       138 setup requests, 138 admits, 0 rejects, 0 setup errors

                38 tear requests, 0 preempts, 0 tear errors

Link ID::  PO4/1 (192.168.3.5)

  Link Admission Statistics:

    Up Path:    50 setup requests, 50 admits, 0 rejects, 0 setup errors

                0 tear requests, 0 preempts, 0 tear errors

    Up Resv:    50 setup requests, 50 admits, 0 rejects, 0 setup errors

                38 tear requests, 0 preempts, 0 tear errors

    Down Path:  88 setup requests, 88 admits, 0 rejects, 0 setup errors

                38 tear requests, 0 preempts, 0 tear errors

    Down Resv:  88 setup requests, 88 admits, 0 rejects, 0 setup errors

                0 tear requests, 0 preempts, 0 tear errors

Link ID::  PO4/2 (192.168.10.5)

  Link Admission Statistics:

    Up Path:    88 setup requests, 88 admits, 0 rejects, 0 setup errors

                38 tear requests, 0 preempts, 0 tear errors

    Up Resv:    88 setup requests, 88 admits, 0 rejects, 0 setup errors

                0 tear requests, 0 preempts, 0 tear errors

    Down Path:  50 setup requests, 50 admits, 0 rejects, 0 setup errors

                0 tear requests, 0 preempts, 0 tear errors

    Down Resv:  50 setup requests, 50 admits, 0 rejects, 0 setup errors

                38 tear requests, 0 preempts, 0 tear errors

show mpls traffic-eng link-management summary Command

As demonstrated in Example 4-52, this command shows a summary of link information. It also has much the same information as other links (commands), but not as much.

Example 4-52 show mpls traffic-eng link-management summary Command Output

gsr5#show mpls traffic-eng link-management summary

System Information::

    Links Count:          2

    Flooding System:      enabled

IGP Area ID::  isis  level-1

    Flooding Protocol:    ISIS

    Flooding Status:      data flooded

    Periodic Flooding:    enabled (every 180 seconds)

    Flooded Links:        2

    IGP System ID:        0168.0001.0005.00

    MPLS TE Router ID:    192.168.1.5

    IGP Neighbors:        2

Link ID::  PO4/1 (192.168.3.5)

    Link Status:

      Physical Bandwidth:   155000 kbits/sec

      Max Res Global BW:    116250 kbits/sec (reserved: 0% in, 43% out)

      Max Res Sub BW:       0 kbits/sec (reserved: 100% in, 100% out)

      MPLS TE Link State:   MPLS TE on, RSVP on, admin-up

      Inbound Admission:    allow-all

      Outbound Admission:   allow-if-room

      Admin. Weight:        10 (IGP)

      IGP Neighbor Count:   1

Link ID::  PO4/2 (192.168.10.5)

    Link Status:

      Physical Bandwidth:   155000 kbits/sec

      Max Res Global BW:    116250 kbits/sec (reserved: 0% in, 86% out)

      Max Res Sub BW:       0 kbits/sec (reserved: 100% in, 100% out)

      MPLS TE Link State:   MPLS TE on, RSVP on, admin-up

      Inbound Admission:    allow-all

      Outbound Admission:   allow-if-room

      Admin. Weight:        10 (IGP)

      IGP Neighbor Count:   1

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