Peter, >> (a) Temporarily add all of the links that would appear to remedy the >> partition. This has the advantage that it is very likely to heal the >> partition and will do so in the minimal amount of convergence time. > > I prefer (a) because of the faster convergence. > Adding all links on a single node to the flooding topology is not going to > cause issues to flooding IMHO.
Could you (or John) please explain your rationale behind that? It seems counter-intuitive. > given that the flooding on the LAN in both OSPF and ISIS is done as > multicast, there is currently no way to enable flooding, either permanent or > temporary, towards a subset of the neighbors on the LAN. So if the flooding > is enabled on a LAN it is done towards all routers connected to the it. Agreed. > Given that all links between routers are p2p these days, I would vote for > simplicity and make the LAN always part of the FT. I’m not on board with this yet. Our simulations suggest that this is not necessarily optimal. There are lots of topologies (e.g., parallel LANs) where this blanket approach is suboptimal. Tony _______________________________________________ Lsr mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsr
