Re: Advertising a Router's Local Addresses in OSPF TE Extensions

Rahul Aggarwal <rahul@JUNIPER.NET> Tue, 13 July 2004 02:30 UTC

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From: Rahul Aggarwal <rahul@JUNIPER.NET>
Subject: Re: Advertising a Router's Local Addresses in OSPF TE Extensions
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Hi Acee,

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Acee Lindem wrote:

> Are there any concerns with this document
> <draft-ietf-ospf-te-node-addr-00.txt>? As I recall there
> was general agreement at the Minneapolis IETF. The only
> comment on the list was that it was unnecessary due to the
> fact that the loopbacks were carried in the router LSAs.

That comment was addressed and section 3 of the draft was updated to
reflect why router LSAs cannot be used for this purpose.

> However,
> I believe the general concensus was that putting in the TE
> LSA was a cleaner solution than populating TE database
> with router LSAs. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>

Yes.

> If there is no additional discussion, I'd like ask the authors to
> re-issue it with the new draft guidelines and last call it.
>

Will re-issue it this week.

> Note that the OSPFv3 TE draft now references depends on
> the new TLV documented in this draft.
>

Great.

Thanks,
rahul

> Thanks,
> ------
> Acee
>