Re: [Lsr] New Version Notification for draft-wang-lsr-isis-mfi-00.txt

Robert Raszuk <robert@raszuk.net> Fri, 26 February 2021 12:10 UTC

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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:09:46 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Lsr] New Version Notification for draft-wang-lsr-isis-mfi-00.txt
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Aijun,

How multi instance is implemented is at the discretion of a vendor. It can
be one process N threads or N processes. It can be both and operator may
choose.

MFI is just one process - by the spec - so it is inferior.

Cheers,
R.


On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 12:44 PM Aijun Wang <wangaj3@chinatelecom.cn> wrote:

> Hi, Robert:
>
> Separate into different protocol instances can accomplish the similar
> task, but it has some deployment overhead.
> MFIs within one instance can avoid such cumbersome work, and doesn’t
> affect the basic routing calculation process.
>
> Aijun Wang
> China Telecom
>
> On Feb 26, 2021, at 19:00, Robert Raszuk <robert@raszuk.net> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi Yali,
>
>
>> If this was precise, then the existing multi-instance mechanism would be
>> sufficient.
>> [Yali]: MFI is a different solution we recommend to solve this same and
>> valuable issue.
>>
>
> Well the way I understand this proposal MFI is much weaker solution in
> terms of required separation.
>
> In contrast RFC8202 allows to separate ISIS instances at the process
> level, but here MFIs as defined must be handled by the same ISIS process
>
>    This document defines an extension to
>    IS-IS to allow *one standard instance* of
>
>    the protocol to support multiple update
>
>    process operations.
>
>
> Thx,
> R.
>
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