Feature configuration

The user enables CBF over IGP shortcuts using the config>router>mpls>class-forwarding command:

config
      router
            [no] mpls
                  class-forwarding-policy policy-name create
                  fc be forwarding-set set-id <1..4>
                  fc l2 forwarding-set set-id <1..4>
                  fc af forwarding-set set-id <1..4>
                  fc l1 forwarding-set set-id <1..4>
                  fc h2 forwarding-set set-id <1..4>
                  fc ef forwarding-set set-id <1..4>
                  fc h1 forwarding-set set-id <1..4>
                  fc nc forwarding-set set-id <1..4>
                  [no] default-set set-id <1..4>

All FCs are mapped to set 1 as soon as the policy is created. The user can make changes to the mapping of FCs as required. An FC, which is not added to the class-forwarding policy, is therefore always mapped to set 1. At most, an FC can be mapped to a single forwarding set. One or more FCs can map to the same set. The user can indicate the initial default set by including the default-set option.

The default forwarding set is used to forward packets of any FC in cases where all LSPs of the forwarding set the FC maps to become operationally down. The router uses the user-configured default set as the initial default set. Otherwise, the router elects the lowest numbered set as the default forwarding set in a class-forwarding policy. When the last LSP in a default forwarding set goes into an operationally down state, the router designates the next lowest-numbered set as the new default forwarding set.

A mapping to a class-forwarding policy and set is added to the existing CBF configuration of an RSVP-TE or SR-TE LSP or to an LSP template. The following commands perform this function.

config>router>mpls>lsp>class-forwarding forwarding-set policy policy-name set set-id

config>router>mpls>lsp-template>class-forwarding forwarding-set policy policy-name set set-id

An MPLS LSP can map only to a single class-forwarding policy and forwarding set. Multiple LSPs can map to the same policy and set. If they form an ECMP set, from the IGP shortcut perspective, packets of the FCs mapped to this set are sprayed over these LSPs based on a modulo operation of the output of the hash routine on the packet's headers and the number of LSPs in the set.