Before a BGP LSP is established, a routing policy must be configured to control label distribution. The egress of the BGP LSP to be established needs to distribute an MPLS label to the route advertised to an upstream node. If a transit node on the BGP LSP receives a labeled IPv4 route from its downstream node, the transit node must re-distribute an MPLS label to the labeled IPv4 route before advertising the route to an upstream node.