Re: [Isis-wg] draft-amante-isis-reverse-metric-01

Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li> Mon, 06 December 2010 21:08 UTC

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> So while we are at ISIS WG I would not mind if we would just run a new instance purely for network wide config making each router to be an NMS station. Call it C-ISIS. Example: instead of configuring links on the adjacent nodes configure link parameter anywhere, instead of configuring node at a node .. configure it anywhere.


Somehow, cramming the NMS into the routing protocol seems like the worst of all worlds.

Tony