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Re: why am i in this handbasket? (was Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?)


From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 21:10:40 +0900

adamv0025 () netconsultings com wrote:

The key takeaway however is that no single entity in SP network, be it PE,
or RR, or ASBR...., ever needs everything, you can always slice and dice
indefinitely.
So to sum it up you simply can not run into any scaling ceiling with MP-BGP
architecture.

Flooding nature of BGP requires all the related entities treat
everything, regardless of whether they need it entirely or not.

                                                        Masataka Ohta


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