Chris/David - > > I was replying to Peter saying that implementations are using the max metric > announcements to avoid sending traffic to overload routers.
[LES:] Are you claiming this because you know this to be true - or are you just speculating that an implementation "might" do this? If there is an implementation doing this (i.e., sending max-metric for prefixes in conjunction with setting the OL bit) I would like to know - and I would like to know why such an implementation does this. I am familiar with implementations that may set max-link-metric in conjunction with setting the OL bit. I am also familiar with implementations that withdraw advertisements of prefixes in conjunction with setting the OL bit (oftentimes under control of a configuration option). But I am not aware of implementations that send prefix advertisements with max metric in conjunction with setting the OL bit. Doing so seems rather odd and not very useful. If an implementation wants to indicate that traffic for that destination should not be sent to that router, it would normally simply stop advertising the prefix. (The OL bit, of course, would keep traffic from transiting the router.) ?? Les _______________________________________________ Lsr mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsr
