flow-label

Enables flow label for a pseudowire (PW) profile.

Syntax

flow-label
no flow-label

Command Default

By default, control word is disabled for PW profiles.

Modes

Pseudowire profile configuration mode

Usage Guidelines

The no form of the command disables flow label for a PW profile.

Flow label configuration improves load balancing of PW traffic over an MPLS network, particularly in the context of PWs that transport high volumes of traffic that are comprised of multiple individual traffic flows (for example, the same source-destination pair for a Transport Control Protocol (TCP) connection is an individual traffic flow).

Examples

The following example shows how to enable flow label for a PW profile named pw_example

device# configure terminal
device(config)# pw-profile pw_example
device(config-pw-pw_example)# flow-label

The following example shows how to disable flow label for a PW profile named pw_example

device# configure terminal
device(config)# pw-profile pw_example
device(config-pw-pw_example)# no flow-label