mark means in show mpls forwarding output

[Atif Siddiqui]

What does ! mark means in show mpls forwarding output                  

10.47.201.254/32 16265 16007 Te0/0/0/0 10.47.202.48 Y N

16007 Te0/3/0/7 142.47.202.62 ! Y N

[Akash Agrawal]

Hi Atif,

Can you please paste complete output of the command? and which router and ios version you are using?

Because normally in cisco router output of "show mpls forwarding" is as below in which prefix comes after in/out label

but in your outout prefix is before in/out label.

R2#sh mpls forwarding-table

Local  Outgoing      Prefix            Bytes Label   Outgoing   Next Hop   

Label  Label or VC   or Tunnel Id      Switched      interface             

16     Pop Label     1.1.1.1/32        0             Et0/0      172.31.12.1

R2#

Regards,

Akash

[Atif Siddiqui]

here is the command, it seems that ! marks is next best route.

RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:Router1#sh mpls ldp forwarding

Wed Jun  5 12:49:25.866 EST

Prefix           Label   Label      Outgoing     Next Hop            GR Stale

                 In      Out        Interface                               

---------------- ------- ---------- ------------ ------------------- -- -----

10.46.0.250/32  16013   16017      Te0/3/0/0    10.47.202.4     Y  N

                         300992     Te0/3/0/5    10.46.0.217        Y  N

10.46.0.251/32  16009   16002      Te0/3/0/0    10.47.202.4        Y  N

                         16014      Te0/3/0/2    10.47.202.73    Y  N

10.46.0.252/32  16014   16008      Te0/3/0/0    10.47.202.4        Y  N

                         16020      Te0/3/0/2    10.47.202.73    Y  N

10.46.0.253/32  16008   16005      Te0/3/0/0    10.47.202.4        Y  N

                         16013      Te0/3/0/2    10.47.202.73

   Y  N