Re: [Isis-wg] New Version Notification for draft-ginsberg-isis-sbfd-discriminator-00.txt

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> Wed, 14 May 2014 15:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Isis-wg] New Version Notification for draft-ginsberg-isis-sbfd-discriminator-00.txt
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On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 05:26:52PM +0200, Hannes Gredler wrote:
> On May 14, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) wrote:
> > Thanx for the comments.
> > I don't see how your proposal solves the problem you are attempting to address. The sender of the S-BFD packet has no control over what interface is used to receive the packet on the target node. Associating it with a prefix will not help in that regard. 
> 
> well it would help first endpoint discovery and pinning down BFD traffic to particular line card.

Indeed.  In the SPRING related case (or even some MPLS scenarios), traffic
may be heavily steered to a given interface.  This interface may not even be
to a router, but may be an ingress for a SFC device and that ingress is
critical for the execution of the chain.

-- Jeff