Re: OSPFv3 Traffic Engineering TLVs and TE Node Address TLV

[Rahul Aggarwal <[e-mail]>]

Hi Acee,

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Acee Lindem wrote:

> We have draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-traffic-01.txt describing
> OSPFv3 traffic engineering TLVs. A new TLV, Router Address TLV,
> is proposed to carry a single routable IPv6 address.
>
> Additionally, at the last IETF, a new draft was presented,
> draft-raggarwa-ospf-te-node-addr-00.txt, which proposes the
> advertisement of multiple routable addresses. There seemed to
> be agreement that the draft was a logical extension of
> RFC 3630 and there was no opposition.
>

Thanks for bringing this up. I have been meaning to poll the list for
moving this draft forward.

> It seems that if we accept the node address draft we should
> modify the OSPFv3 traffic engineering draft to add the
> requirement for a node address TLV specifying at least one
> routable IPv6 address.
>

The Node Address TLV is intended to carry local addresses, that are not
otherwise advertised in OSPF TE (router ID, TE links, Router IPv6
Address). This can be clarified further in
draft-raggarwa-ospf-te-node-addr-00.txt. Will that suffice ?

Thanks,
rahul


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