Re: [Bier] Questions on draft-eckert-bier-te-arch-01

IJsbrand Wijnands <ice@cisco.com> Fri, 09 October 2015 22:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Bier] Questions on draft-eckert-bier-te-arch-01
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Caitlin,

> If there a N BFR-IDs total in the BIER domain, why is it more expensive to break them into 2x sub-domains as opposed
> to X sub-domains that are each twice as large?

Not sure what you mean here...

> 
> If there are 2x routing underlays then clearly things would be more expensive, but what expense is there in having
> an additional sub-domain rather than an additional SI slice?

A SI is as expensive as a sub-domain, there is no difference.

Thx,

Ice.