Administrative Control of RSVP Hello and Graceful Restart Procedure
Cisco Systems
Ability to administratively shutdown RSVP Hellos and Graceful Restart (GR) procedure without impacting the traffic is a desirable network operation. Furthermore, there are applications that run RSVP Hellos with intervals on the order of milliseconds. This poses a requirement to reduce the number of RSVP messages to a minimal required count. Fortunately RSVP Hellos are not mandatory and are only required to run when needed. This allows applications to remove an RSVP Hello session, when it is not needed. This ID proposes a procedure to remove RSVP Hello and/ or GR sessions for administrative or optimization purposes.