{"draft":"draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-13","doc_id":"RFC4379","title":"Detecting Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) Data Plane Failures","authors":["K. Kompella","G. Swallow"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"50","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Multiprotocol Label Switching","abstract":"This document describes a simple and efficient mechanism that can be\r\nused to detect data plane failures in Multi-Protocol Label Switching\r\n(MPLS) Label Switched Paths (LSPs).  There are two parts to this\r\ndocument: information carried in an MPLS \"echo request\" and \"echo\r\nreply\" for the purposes of fault detection and isolation, and\r\nmechanisms for reliably sending the echo reply.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"January 2006","keywords":["data plane"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":["RFC8029"],"updates":["RFC1122"],"updated_by":["RFC5462","RFC6424","RFC6425","RFC6426","RFC6829","RFC7506","RFC7537","RFC7743"],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC4379","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc4379"}