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Re: IGPs in use
From: Tony Li <tli () juniper net>
Date: 14 Oct 1998 12:21:02 -0700
smd () clock org (Sean M. Doran) writes:
There are some drawbacks to IS-IS: its per-link metrics are not rich as currently defined, the LSP space is limited (but can be hacked at), and you are stuck with no more than 255 pseudonodes. All of these are likely to be hacked at and some seem pretty fixable by locking Henk and Tony (and probably Dave Katz, who did a good public analysis of IGP scaling at NANOG in Phoenix and who has done even better private analyses and gripefests --:) ) in a room for a few hours.
In fact, I believe that it is not necessary to lock us in a room. A preferable alternative is if you lock others out, and throw in bandwidth, cycles, pizza, Scotch, diet Coke, and cash. ;-) ;-) ;-)
Frankly, though, I'm hoping that rather than locking themselves in the room to "improve" IS-IS, the Obvious People lock themselves into a room and build something else instead (which they might simply call IS-IS, even if it isn't. Been there, done that, called it BGP).
It's not clear that locking these people in a room would produce something fundamentally different than IS-IS anyway... so.... I believe that a more accurate modus operandi will be to extend IS-IS as much as possible within the bounds of the existing protocol. Then, when pressing problems drive us beyond those borders, to do more major work on the protocol. Whether that final result is called IS-IS or not (or even OSPF ;-) is largely a political question, not a technical one. Tony
Current thread:
- Re: IGPs in use, (continued)
- Re: IGPs in use Danny McPherson (Oct 12)
- Re: IGPs in use Danny McPherson (Oct 13)
- Re: IGPs in use I Am Not An Isp (Oct 13)
- Re: IGPs in use Paul G. Donner (Oct 13)
- Re: IGPs in use Danny McPherson (Oct 13)
- Re: IGPs in use Forrest W. Christian (Oct 14)
- Re: IGPs in use Sean M. Doran (Oct 14)
- Re: IGPs in use bmanning (Oct 14)
- Re: IGPs in use Jerry Scharf (Oct 14)
- Re: IGPs in use Tony Li (Oct 14)
- Re: IGPs in use Tony Li (Oct 14)
- Re: IGPs in use Sean M. Doran (Oct 14)
- Re: IGPs in use Henk Smit (Oct 14)
- Re: IGPs in use Tony Li (Oct 14)
- Re: IGPs in use Sean M. Doran (Oct 14)
- Re: IGPs in use Vince Fuller (Oct 14)
- Re: IGPs in use Tony Li (Oct 14)
- Re: IGPs in use alex (Oct 15)
- Re: IGPs in use Paul Ferguson (Oct 16)