Re: [OSPF] OSPF NBMA interface type

[Acee Lindem <[e-mail]>]

Hi Glen,
With the convergence to ethernet everywhere, there is much less of a requirement for other OSPF topologies. However, P2MP is still very relevant in wireless and we now have the hybrid interface (RFC 6845). With Ericsson IPOS, we also use P2MP for subscriber OSPF adjacencies where a single interface can support many subscribers each with some form of explicit or implied encap for demuxing each individual subscriber.

I don't see much requirement for NBMA but I'm sure there are deployments making use of it.  

Thanks,
Acee 

On Jul 5, 2013, at 2:53 AM, Glen Kent wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> These days people only have OSPF interface type as point-to-point and broadcast. I understand that NBMA was required for technologies that inherently dont support bcast, but where packets need to be sent to multiple nodes (like ATM).
> 
> Given that ATM and Frame Relay networks are mostly out, when would we use an OSPF interface type as NBMA or point-to-multipoint.
> 
> Is it in some wireless domains that we will use this?
> 
> Glen