Method and system for establishing tunnels
A method for establishing tunnels includes establishing a first unidirectional tunnel from a first node to a second node, and sending a first instruction for establishing a reverse tunnel of the first tunnel, when sending the first instruction to the second node, triggering the establishment of a second unidirectional tunnel from the second node to the first node, and binding the second tunnel to the first tunnel as the reverse tunnel of the first tunnel. A system for establishing tunnels is also provided. The establishment of a reverse tunnel may be automatically triggered after a forward tunnel is established, and a bidirectional tunnel is established.
1. A method for establishing traffic engineering (TE) tunnels, the method comprising:
sending, by a first node, a first Path message for establishing a first unidirectional TE tunnel from the first node to a second node, wherein the first Path message comprises: (1) triggering information configured to trigger the second node to send a second Path message for establishing a second unidirectional TE tunnel from the second node to the first node and (2) bandwidth information that specifies a bandwidth for the second unidirectional TE tunnel, wherein the bandwidth for the second unidirectional TE tunnel is different from a bandwidth of the first unidirectional TE tunnel;
receiving, by the first node, the second Path message and a first Resv message responsive to the first Path message; and
sending, by the first node, a second Resv message responsive to the second Path message.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method comprises binding, by the first node, the first unidirectional TE tunnel with the second unidirectional TE tunnel.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first Path message comprises path information that specifies the path of the second unidirectional TE tunnel.
4. A method for establishing traffic engineering (TE) tunnels, the method comprising:
receiving, by a second node, a first Path message for establishing a first unidirectional TE tunnel from a first node to the second node, wherein the first Path message comprises: (1) triggering information configured to trigger the second node to send a second Path message for establishing a second unidirectional TE tunnel from the second node to the first node and (2) bandwidth information that specifies a bandwidth for the second unidirectional TE tunnel, wherein the bandwidth for the second unidirectional TE tunnel is different from a bandwidth of the first unidirectional TE tunnel;
sending, by the second node, the second Path message to the first node; and
sending, by the second node, a first Resv message responsive to the first Path message.
5. The method for establishing TE tunnels of claim 4 , further comprising binding, by the second node, the first unidirectional TE tunnel and the second unidirectional TE tunnel.
6. An node, comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the memory includes instructions to cause the one or more processors to perform the following operations:
sending a first Path message for establishing a first unidirectional TE (Traffic Engineering) tunnel from the node to another node, wherein the first Path message comprises: (1) triggering information configured to trigger the another node to send a second Path message for establishing a second unidirectional TE tunnel from the another node to the node, and (2) bandwidth information that specifies a bandwidth for the second unidirectional TE tunnel, wherein the bandwidth for the second unidirectional TE tunnel is different from a bandwidth of the first unidirectional TE tunnel;
receiving the second Path message and a first Resv message responsive to the first Path message; and
sending a second Resv message responsive to the second Path message.
7. The node of claim 6 , wherein the operations further comprise binding the first unidirectional TE tunnel with the second unidirectional TE tunnel.
8. The node of claim 6 , wherein the first Path message comprises path information that specifies the path of the second unidirectional TE tunnel.
9. A node, comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory couple to the one or more processors, wherein the memory includes instructions to cause the one or more processors to perform the following operations:
receiving a first Path message for establishing a first unidirectional TE (Traffic Engineering) tunnel from another node to the node, wherein the first Path message comprises: (1) triggering information configured to trigger the node to send a second Path message for establishing a second unidirectional TE tunnel from the node to the another node and (2) bandwidth information that specifies a bandwidth for the second unidirectional TE tunnel, wherein the bandwidth for the second unidirectional TE tunnel is different from a bandwidth of the first unidirectional TE tunnel;
sending the second Path message to the another node; and
sending a first Resv message responsive to the first Path message.
10. The node of claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise binding the first unidirectional TE tunnel and the second unidirectional TE tunnel.