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I've tried to port a simple Tcl full-screen editor to IOS and failed completely as IOS tclsh escapes control characters written by the puts command. For example, the following escape sequence should clear the screen, but as the ESCAPE character is di...
The value in the link data field should be the ifindex of the tunnel interface (the point-to-point link between the routers) not the ifindex of a loopback (MPLS TE router-id).
#1: Sure, it's LSR. Fixed.#2: If you want to stay within the rules of OSPF or IS-IS RFC and have unidirectional LSP in topology database, the tail-end LSR has to lie. As I said, a bad idea, but the only thing you can do unless you violate OSPF rules....
You should consider two scenarios:(A) The tail-end LSR advertises point-to-point adjacency to head-end LSR without having an actual transport path. This is plain stupid and it's not hard to build a scenario resulting in a routing loop.(B) The head-en...