LFA protection support

The following are the details of the LFA protection support:

  1. Prefixes that resolve to one or more RSVP-TE LSPs as their primary next hops are automatically protected by RSVP-TE LSP FRR if enabled.

  2. If the user enables the lfa-only option for a specified RSVP-TE LSP, and the SR-ISIS or SR-OSPF tunnel has a single IP primary next hop (no ECMP next hops), it can be protected by a FRR backup that uses a RSVP-TE LSP.

  3. Applications that resolve in TTM to an SR-ISIS or SR-OSPF tunnel, which itself is resolved to one or more RSVP-TE LSPs, are equally be protected either by the RSVP-TE LSP FRR (1) or the SR LFA using a RSVP-TE LSP (2).

  4. Assume family ipv4 resolves to RSVP-TE in the unicast routing table while family srv4 resolves to IP links in the multicast routing table. If the IP prefix of an SR tunnel is resolved to a RSVP-TE LSP primary next hop, and is protected by RSVP-TE LSP FRR (1), this feature supports computing an LFA next hop for the SR IPv4 tunnel of the same prefix using IP next hops.

  5. Assume family ipv4 or family ipv6 resolves to RSVP-TE in the unicast routing table while family srv4 or family srv6 resolves to IP links in the multicast routing table. If the IP prefix of an SR IPv4 or SR IPv6 tunnel is resolved to a single IP primary next hop and is protected by an SR LFA backup using an RSVP-TE LSP FRR (2), the feature does not support computing a LFA next hop for the SR IPv4 or SR IPv6 tunnel and remains unprotected.

    If, however, the user enabled the remote LFA or the TI-LFA feature, an SR backup next hop may be found for the SR IPv4 or SR IPv6 tunnel, which then becomes protected.