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When the ingress LEC/MPC receives the NHRP response containing the destina-
tion’s ATM address, it first checks if a shortcut circuit to that ATM address already
exists. If a shortcut circuit to that address already exists, it sends the packets via the
existing shortcut circuit. If no shortcut circuit exists it opens a new shortcut circuit
and begins sending packets over it to the destination.
4.3.4.5 Shortcut Teardown
Application programs and networking protocol stacks are MPOA-ignorant and, therefore, do
not tear down shortcut circuits when the shortcut is no longer needed. Therefore, the MPOA
layer itself tears down seldom-used shortcuts to avoid circuit exhaustion in the client and net-
work. When a shortcut is idle for a period exceeding a set limit, the shortcut is torn down.
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