Re: [Rtg-yang-coord] issue :R03: assignment of interfaces to routing instances

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Wed, 14 January 2015 17:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Rtg-yang-coord] issue :R03: assignment of interfaces to routing instances
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 04:43:29PM +0000, Xufeng Liu wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> The concatenated string format is actually what we plan to do. However, to me, it is more like a hack than an engineered solution. The model fails to capture such a relationship properly.
>

If your interface names are no unique, I would assume that you will
face other issues as well. For example, one may use an interface name
to disambiguate link-local addresses. I am not sure how that works if
your interface name is not unique.

/js

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