Re: router-router NHRP

["Andrew G. Malis" <[e-mail]>]

Curtis,

> The whole point is that NHRP is completely inadequate for a) unless
> the tolopogy is constrained such that their is little or no redundant
> connectivity to destinations off the NBMA, which some of us consider a
> very uninteresting case and very unlikely for a large deployment (what
> ROLC originally set out to target).  Somewhere we've lost the
> connection between the requirements that this WG set out to meet and
> the work output.

I couldn't let this go unanswered.  The current rev of NHRP is useful
when either the the source or destination host is an NBMA-attached
host, or is one hop away from the NBMA.  This covers a LOT of cases,
in fact most ATM deployments until we start to see the "ubiquitous ATM
infrastructure".

I agree it doesn't cover the full range of what you term "interesting"
cases, and I also agree that it's important to complete the work.  At
the Stockholm meeting, and again via the minutes following the
meeting, I solicited I-Ds for the Dallas meeting on how to handle the
full range of cases.  I know of at least one such draft in progress,
from Yakov and Bruce, and I had a hallway conversation concerning
another possible draft on the subject.  If you aren't happy with the
current work output, PLEASE submit a draft yourself, or contribute to
the draft(s) in progress, so we can get this done.

Thanks,
Andy
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