| abstract |
A system and method for advertising out-of resources (OOR) conditions for entities, such as nodes, line cards, and data links, in a manner that does not involve using a maximum cost to indicate the entity is OOR. An intermediate node in a data network is configured with a supervisor engine (300) that indicates an entity associated with the intermediate node is OOR. A memory (340) contains an advertisement message having one or more TLV objects configured to report one or more OOR conditions of the entity. A processor (320) is configured to report the entity's OOR condition in the one or more TLV objects. |