Re: [Lsr] Thoughts on the area proxy and flood reflector drafts.

[Tony Przygienda <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:04 AM Christian Hopps <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> > I also suggest to look up why in PNNI we ended up introducing a special
> "L1 equivalent" computation to the peer group leader to validate that it
> was actually reachable for correct operation (especially hierarchy
> negotiations) on peer group egresses which in a sense was like but worse
> than virtual links operationally IME. I was suggesting then to keep an SVC
> from PGL to every border for that reason since a partition of a PGL led
> otherwise to the peer groups looking like the same thing for a while with
> highly undesirable operational effects (my memory doesn't reach that far
> really but we had at least discussions then to implement proprietary
> solution in Fore to have such SVCs for more stable deployments). In more
> abstract terms, flooding is extremely good to quickly "route around
> failures" when e'ones state is completely decentralized but is simply not a
> great mechanism if you have to talk to an entity couple hops away in a
> stable manner, especially if this entity hold state you need for correct
> operation when talking to your peers.
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So we understand L2 tunnels from leaf to FR are "real" tunnels and have
nothing to do with virtual links.

As to the data plane, nope, you don't end up with any "virtual links" I can
recognize unless you choose to call redistribution "virtual links" as well,
maybe look @ the presentation again.

-- tony