MPLS Guide MPLS and RSVP-TE
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When SIDs are explicitly configured for a path, the user must provide all of the 
necessary SIDs to reach the destination. The router does not validate whether the 
whole label stack provided is correct other than checking that the top SID is 
programmed locally. A path can come up even if it contains SIDs that are invalid. The 
user or controller programming the path should ensure that the SIDs are correct.
A path must consist of either all SIDs or all IP address hops.
Paths containing explicit SID values can only be used by SR-TE LSPs.
3.12.5 SR-TE LSP Protection
The router supports local protection of a particular segment of an SR-TE LSP and 
end-to-end protection of the complete SR-TE LSP.
Each path is locally protected along the network using LFA or remote-LFA next hop 
whenever possible. The protection of a node SID reuses the LFA and remote LFA 
features introduced with segment routing shortest path tunnels; the protection of an 
adjacency SID has been added to the 7705 SAR in the specific context of an SR-TE 
LSP to augment the protection level. The user must enable the loopfree-alternates> 
remote-lfa command in IS-IS or OSPF.
An SR-TE LSP has state at the ingress LER only. The LSR has state for the node 
SID and adjacency SID, whose labels are programmed in the label stack of the 
received packet and which represent the part of the ERO of the SR-TE LSP on this 
router and downstream of this router. In order to provide protection for an SR-TE 
LSP, each LSR node must attempt to program a link-protect or node-protect LFA 
next hop in the ILM record of a node SID or an adjacency SID, and the LER node 
must do the same in the LTN record of the SR-TE LSP. The following are details of 
the behavior.
• If the ILM record is for a node SID of a downstream router that is not directly 
connected, the ILM of this node SID points to the backup NHLFE computed by 
the LFA SPF and programmed by the SR module for this node SID. Depending 
on the topology and LFA policy used, this can be a link-protect or node-protect 
LFA next hop.
This behavior is already supported in the SR shortest path tunnel feature at both 
the LER and LSR. Therefore, an SR-TE LSP that transits at an LSR and that 
matches the ILM of a downstream node SID automatically takes advantage of 
this protection when enabled. If required, node SID protection can be disabled 
under the IGP instance by excluding the prefix of the node SID from the LFA.