>Well, it is not really much different from 'secondary' option - have some ordering of available paths, announce the first N paths vs. announce the first path that pass filters.
Right. On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 4:27 PM Ondrej Zajicek <santi...@crfreenet.org> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 02:42:00PM +0200, Maria Matejka via Bird-users > wrote: > > Hello Donatas! > > > > On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 02:29:40PM +0300, Donatas Abraitis wrote: > > > > > I hope this is the right place to ask for feature requests. > > > > Yes, it is! > > > > > Would you mind adding this [1]draft to your TODO (/ feature) list? > > > > After reading the draft, I understand that the actual algorithm on how > > to choose the set of paths to be sent, is outside the scope of the > > document. I consider this a major problem which may lead to hard-to-fix > > long-term traffic loops between differing implementations. > > That mostly depends on usage pattern, and if the set of announced paths > contains the best path, then routing loops would be transient, like > if you send just one path. > > > > There are thoughts on actually implementing this in BIRD. > > Regarding the current development priorities, this is expected to be > > implemented (if it actually happens) in BIRD 3 only, and only after we > > implement some more structural changes in the route storage. Otherwise, > > this is going to be a performance nightmare. > > Well, it is not really much different from 'secondary' option - have some > ordering of available paths, announce the first N paths vs. announce the > first path that pass filters. > > -- > Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo > > Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santi...@crfreenet.org) > "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so." > -- Donatas
