{"draft":"draft-ietf-mpls-proxy-lsp-ping-05","doc_id":"RFC7555","title":"Proxy MPLS Echo Request","authors":["G. Swallow","V. Lim","S. Aldrin"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"28","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Multiprotocol Label Switching","abstract":"This document defines a means of remotely initiating Multiprotocol Label\r\nSwitched Protocol (MPLS) Pings on Label Switched Paths.  An MPLS Proxy Ping\r\nRequest is sent to any Label Switching Router along a Label Switched Path.\r\nThe primary motivations for this facility are first to limit the number of\r\nmessages and related processing when using LSP Ping in large\r\nPoint-to-Multipoint LSPs, and second to enable tracing from leaf to leaf \r\n(or root).","pub_date":"June 2015","keywords":[],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC7555","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc7555"}