MPLS Label Distribution Protocol
Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) is a protocol that automatically generates and exchanges MPLS labels between routers. Each router will locally generate labels for its prefixes and will then advertise the label values to its neighbors.
Like many other protocols, LDP first establishes a neighbor adjacency before it exchanges label information.
An alternative to the use of LDP is the use of multiprotocol BGP. MP-BGP supports MPLS label distribution as well using BGP NLRIs.
Links
https://networklessons.com/mpls/mpls-ldp-label-distribution-protocol
Links to this page:
- BGP - Labeled Unicast
- MPLS - BGP customer prefixes do not appear in the LFIB
- MPLS - Connecting IPv6 sites over an IPv4 backbone
- MPLS - LDP source interface
- MPLS - Transport Profile
- MPLS - Using RSVP for Traffic Engineering
- MPLS - label distribution using MP-BGP
- MPLS - label
- MPLS 6PE uses two labels in the data plane
- MPLS entropy label
- Next Generation Multicast Virtual Private Network (NG-MVPN)