Re: [Idr] Growing BGP-LS Attribute

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Sun, 21 October 2018 19:49 UTC

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>> as adrian says, if you wanna monitor the igp, then do so directly.
> Well as you know in practice this is not always an option - in fact
> this is almost never an option in production network

while i agree with "not always," i strongly disagree with "almost
never."  my experience is that it usually is an option.  in operation,
the weakness is good igp monitoring software; much suckage, especially
for is-is.

randy