This feature provides for the auto-creation of an IPv6 SR-TE mesh LSP and for a IPv6 SR-TE one-hop LSP.
The SR-TE mesh LSP feature specifically binds an LSP template of type mesh-p2p-srte with one or more IPv6 prefix lists. When the Traffic Engineering database discovers a router, which has an IPv6 TE router ID matching an entry in the prefix list, it triggers MPLS to instantiate an SR-TE LSP to that router using the LSP parameters in the LSP template.
The SR-TE one-hop LSP feature specifically activates a LSP template of type one-hop-p2p-srte. In this case, the TE database keeps track of each TE link which comes up to a directly connected IGP TE neighbor. It then instructs MPLS to instantiate a SR-TE LSP with the following parameters:
the source IPv6 address of the local router
an outgoing interface matching the interface index of the TE-link
a destination address matching the IPv6 TE router-id of the neighbor on the TE link
A new family CLI leaf is added to the LSP template configuration and must be set to the ipv6 value. By default, this command is set to the ipv4 value for backward compatibility. When establishing both IPv4 and IPv6 SR-TE mesh auto-LSPs with the same parameters and constraints, a separate LSP template of type mesh-p2p-srte must be configured for each address family with the family CLI leaf set to the IPv4 or IPv6 value. SR-TE one-hop auto-LSPs can only be established for either IPv4 or IPv6 family, but not both. The family leaf in the LSP template of type one-hop-p2p-srte should be set to the desired IP family value.
All capabilities of an IPv4 SR-TE auto-LSP are supported with a IPv6 SR-TE auto-LSP unless indicated otherwise.