Please see my reply below inline.

Thanks,
Yingzhen

On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM Acee Lindem <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Yingzhen,
>
> > On Aug 9, 2025, at 5:08 PM, Yingzhen Qu <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Authors,
> >
> > I reviewed the document and have a couple of questions.
> >
> > In section 4.1, the description about Figure 5 doesn't seem to be right.
> > "
> > For example in the network shown
> > in Figure 5, link D-F is advertised with
> > LSLinkInfinity(65535/0xffff). Router A supports LSLinkInfinity as
> > unreachable, but router B does not. Router A considers link D-F as
> > reachable, and the shortest path to F is A->B->D->F. Router B
> > considers link D-F as unreachable, and the shortest path to F is
> > B->A->C->E->F. As a result, A forwards the packets to B, but B
> > returns them to A, which results in a routing loop.
> > "
> > It seems to me that it should be router A which doesn't support
> LSLinkInfinity, while router B does. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Good catch. It should read "Router B supports LSLinkInfinity as
> unreachable but Router A does not. "
>
>
> >
> > In section 4.2;
> > "
> > When an OSPFv2 router supports [RFC6987] and the Unreachable Link
> > support capability defined in this document, it MUST also support
> > [RFC8770].
> > "
> > Why RFC 8770 MUST be supported?
>
> Actually, if 0xfffe is used for stub router support, support for RFC 8770
> is not required.
>
>
> >
> > Also to my understanding, the enablement of unreachable link is only
> needed in the base OSPF topology, correct?
>
> Yes - since advertisement of other topologies is optional, it is only
> required for the base topology. However, it would make more
> sense to have 0xffff to mean unreachable consistently. We will add some
> text.
>
> [Yingzhen]: Adding some text will be helpful to ensure that 0xffff is
processed consistently. For a flex-algo, I'd think to not-include a link
would be easier than to set the metric to 0xffff.

>
> >
> > Attached are the YANG module and tree for you to include in the draft.
> Please let me know if you need any other info.
>
> This looks good but we also need to update the router-capabilities-tlv for
> the OSPFv2 opaque LSA and OSPFv3 Router-Information LSA.
>
> [Yingzhen]: I added an identity for the new capability. Do we need to
update the router-capabilities-tlv? The grouping of
"router-capabilities-tlv" defined in RFC9129 can return all possible flags
within 32 bits range.





> Thanks,
> Acee
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yingzhen
> >
> > <ietf-ospf-link-unreachable.yang><ietf-ospf-link-unreachable.tree>
>
>
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