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Re: IGP choice


From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 11:15:27 +0200



On 23/Oct/15 11:00, marcel.duregards () yahoo fr wrote:

by having multiple areas, therefore ABR which deny routers and network
LSA, you introduce summarization (ABR only send summary LSA, mean
subnet info, not topology info) in your network.
Thus you loose informations and do not have a complete topology of
your network. I guess MPLS/TE prefer to seat on top of a real topology ?

Yes, summarization in the IGP has the potential to create blackholes
and/or loops.

This reminds me of:

    http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-swallow-mpls-aggregate-fec-01.txt

Mark.


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