Chapter 7 MPLS Network Faults

LDP Neighbor Down Alarm

Figure 7-1 Example of an MPLS Black Hole Scenario

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In this case, Cisco ANA does the following:

Identifies untagged label switching entries on P2 and PE3.

Issues MPLS Black Hole Found alarms on the interfaces on both sides of the link (since the LSP is unidirectional).

Initiates a backward flow starting from the link on the specific untagged entries and identifies the two LSPs traversing the link, namely:

LSP from PE2 to PE3

LSP from PE3 to PE2

Issues Broken LSP Discovered alarms on both LSPs in PE2 and PE3, which are correlated to the corresponding MPLS Black Hole Found alarm.

Note The clearing alarm does not activate flows to locate the LSPs that were passing through it in order to issue a clearing alarm for Broken LSPs, but rather uses the auto-clear functionality. The gateway periodically reviews the tickets and checks if all the alarms under each ticket are cleared or configured as auto-cleared alarms, and whether the gateway correlation timeout has passed, in which case the gateway closes the ticket.

After the MPLS Black Hole alarm clears, and the configured gateway correlation timeout period is reached, the gateway can close the ticket because all the alarms correlated to MPLS Black Hole and Broken LSP are auto-cleared.

Note If an MPLS Network Link Down event causes an IP reroute and an LDP redistribution, new LSPs might be redirected through non-MPLS segments, which will create a black hole. In this case, Broken LSP Discovered alarms are issued. However, the discovered broken LSPs are correlated to the Link Down alarm and not to the MPLS Black Hole Found alarm.

LDP Neighbor Down Alarm

LDP enables neighboring P or PE routers acting as LSRs to discover peers in an MPLS network to which they can establish LDP sessions. The sessions allow the routers to negotiate and exchange labels used for forwarding packets.

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Cisco Systems 3.6.6 manual LDP Neighbor Down Alarm, Example of an Mpls Black Hole Scenario

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