Re: [Bier] Comment on BIER-TE

IJsbrand Wijnands <ice@cisco.com> Wed, 09 August 2017 18:51 UTC

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Toerless,

> Now if you want to use traffic-engineering ("path engineering")
> to do steiner trees, IGP topologies will not help. If you want
> to do N-path load-splitting, you need N topologies, etc. pp.
> "Your mileage will vary" ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Solutions_looking_for_a_problem

:-)

Thx,

Ice.