unavailable VGs...

Robert Woody Woodburn <woody@sparta.com> Fri, 22 May 1992 18:33 UTC

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Date: Fri, 22 May 92 14:35:16 -0400
From: Robert Woody Woodburn <woody@sparta.com>
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To: idpr-wg@bbn.com
Subject: unavailable VGs...
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In the RID Dynamic Update message, isn't the list of unavailable VGs
superfluous since they can be derived from the dynamic update combined
with the configuration update?

In the old route synthesis implementation, it was ignored, and now that
I'm about to rehash the code, I'm wondering if it is ever really needed
by anybody.

Should the PCP protocol be getting a copy of the list to determine the
validity of active policy routes?  I don't think so, because if a VG
became unreachable, the path would be torn down anyway.

wood y