Re: [Lsr] WG Adoption Call for "IGP Flexible Algorithms (Flex-Algorithm) In IP Networks" - draft-bonica-lsr-ip-flexalgo-01

Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li> Fri, 04 December 2020 15:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Lsr] WG Adoption Call for "IGP Flexible Algorithms (Flex-Algorithm) In IP Networks" - draft-bonica-lsr-ip-flexalgo-01
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> Can't we associate multiple Flex-Algorithms with one
>> loopback address, which means we want to reach the loopback address through different paths?



Pragmatically, this is not a big deal. Most implementations allow many loopback interfaces, so this just costs a single /32 or /128.

Tony