@misc{rfc4379, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 4379, howpublished = {RFC 4379}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC4379}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4379}, author = {Kireeti Kompella and George Swallow}, title = {{Detecting Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) Data Plane Failures}}, pagetotal = 50, year = 2006, month = feb, abstract = {This document describes a simple and efficient mechanism that can be used to detect data plane failures in Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Switched Paths (LSPs). There are two parts to this document: information carried in an MPLS "echo request" and "echo reply" for the purposes of fault detection and isolation, and mechanisms for reliably sending the echo reply. {[}STANDARDS-TRACK{]}}, }