Re: [Idr] Bug in RFC 7911 (add-paths) and tie-breaking

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Sat, 26 June 2021 17:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] Bug in RFC 7911 (add-paths) and tie-breaking
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John Scudder wrote on 26/06/2021 16:13:
> The point of the path-id tie-break, if we did it, would be to make
> the outcome fully specified in all cases, even those missed by
> fast-conn-restore.
^^^^ that.  It's operationally important to have an option to have 
deterministic routing.

Nick