Re: [Idr] RS BFD draft

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Wed, 19 April 2017 14:31 UTC

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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 16:31:29 +0200
From: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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Subject: Re: [Idr] RS BFD draft
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Hi,

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 12:12:31PM +0300, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> Jeffrey Haas wrote:
> > The RS-BFD proposal doesn't preclude other mechanisms for advertising
> > alternate paths.  I'd be interested in hearing about RS operators that have
> > any intentions of deploying BGP add-paths[1] or diverse paths.
> 
> with RS operator hat on, add-paths is interesting; diverse paths less
> so.  I'd deploy add-paths on the RS side if there were more client
> support out there for it.  Right now, this is thin on the ground.

In the context of "unreachable next-hops" (blackhole in the fabric, or
issues with the remote router) add-paths alone isn't helping much, until
router implementations actually do liveliness detection for the next-hop,
falling back to the next path if the peer is not reachable.

Now, how can we get router vendors interested in providing that...?

(I'll happily settle for "if ARP or ND fails, consider the next-hop
unreachable", which is far superior to "just black-hole", and also
superior to "we have a very fancy mechanism that only works if both
sides implement the protocol")

Gert Doering
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