Label Information Base
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Label Information Base (LIB) is the software table maintained by IP/MPLS capable routers to store the details of port and the corresponding MPLS router label to be popped/pushed on incoming/outgoing MPLS packets.
Entries are populated from label-distribution protocols.
LDP is a protocol that automatically generates and exchanges labels between routers. Each router will locally generate labels for its prefixes and will then advertise the label values to its neighbors. It’s a standard, based on Cisco’s proprietary TDP (Tag Distribution Protocol). Nowadays almost everyone uses LDP instead of TDP.
LDP first establishes a neighbor adjacency before it exchanges label information. It works a bit differently than most protocols though. LIB functions in the control plane of router's MPLS layer. It is used by the label distribution protocol for mapping the next hop labels. [1]
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