Data Plane Forwarding

When a packet is received from an LDP neighbor, the LSR swaps the LDP label into a BGP label and pushes the LDP label to reach the BGP neighbor, for example, ABR/ASBR, which advertised the BGP labeled route with itself as the next-hop.

When a packet is received from a BGP neighbor such as an ABR/ASBR, the top label is removed and the BGP label is swapped for the LDP label to reach the next-hop for the prefix.