Abstract
A distributed Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) traffic-engineering technique is proposed herein that reuses Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVPTE)- style distributed path computation and signaling to establish traffic-engineered switched paths. Instead of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) labels, each node allocates an IPv6 link-local address as a locally significant forwarding identifier for a label switched path (LSP) segment. A transit node matches an incoming interface and destination IPv6 link-local address, rewrites the destination address to the next per-hop link-local address, and forwards the packet through the selected outgoing interface. The resulting IPv6-native path resembles MPLS label swapping while using scoped IPv6 linklocal addresses as per-hop switching identifiers.
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Recommended Citation
Saad, Tarek, "DISTRIBUTED IPv6 TRAFFIC-ENGINEERED SWITCHED PATHS USING PERHOP IPv6 LINK-LOCAL ADDRESS SWAPPING", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/12589