Information related to traffic engineering is carried in IS-IS traffic engineering LSPs. IS-IS TE LSPs have special extensions that contain information about an interface‘s administrative group memberships, IPv4 interface address, IPv4 neighbor address, maximum link bandwidth, reservable link bandwidth, unreserved bandwidth, and default traffic engineering metrics.
The user can configure the device to send out IS-IS TE LSPs to selected MPLS-enabled interfaces. To do this, complete the following steps.
device# configure
device(config)# router mpls
device(config-router-mpls)# policy
device(config-router-mpls-policy)# traffic-engineering isis level-1
The following example configures the device to send out IS-IS-TE LSPs for all of its MPLS-enabled interface.
device# configure device(config)# router mpls device(config-router-mpls)# policy device(config-router-mpls-policy)# traffic-engineering isis level-1
By default, the device does not send out IS-IS LSPs with TE extensions for its MPLS-enabled interfaces. Since information in the TED is used to make path selections using CSPF, and information in the TED comes from OSPF-TE LSAs or IS-IS LSPs with TE extensions, the user must enable the device to send out OSPF-TE LSAs or IS-IS LSPs with TE extensions when the user wants CSPF to perform constraint-based path selection.