FRR

Fast reroute (FRR) protects CRLSPs from link and node failures. FRR can implement 50-millisecond CRLSP failover.

After FRR is enabled for an MPLS TE tunnel, once a link or node fails on the primary CRLSP, FRR reroutes the traffic to a bypass CRLSP, and the ingress node attempts to set up a new CRLSP. After the new CRLSP is set up, traffic is forwarded on the new CRLSP.

CRLSP backup provides end-to-end path protection for a CRLSP without time limitation. FRR provides quick but temporary protection for a link or node on a CRLSP.

Basic concepts

Protection modes

FRR provides the following protection modes:

FRR deployment

Following these guidelines to deploy FRR: